Recently, Pope Leo XIV delivered a personal message to Silicon Valley executives, academics, and Vatican officials gathered in Rome for a conference on artificial intelligence. He encouraged them to follow a human-centric “ethical criterion” in AI development that would account for “the well-being of the human person not only materially, but also intellectually and spiritually.” Addressing the representatives of companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Palantir, he warned of AI’s danger to the “intellectual and neurological development” of children, and “the possibility of its misuse for selfish gain at the expense of others, or worse, to foment conflict and aggression.”

Despite what any Silicon Valley sage may tell you, no one person or company really knows exactly how humanity will adapt—or not—to this world-changing technology. Every technology needs guardrails. But there is no central conversation about managing AI development—it’s millions and millions of conversations happening at warp speed around the world. Governments and businesses will have to work together to protect people from potential economic or even societal collapse, especially as artificial general intelligence (AGI) looms closer. Pope Leo’s bold entry into these discussions is an opportunity to cut through the noise. His advice helps distill the most important elements of a sensible response to AI’s exponential development—and point the way to practical, ethical guardrails.

Pope Leo has taken an urgent interest in the global challenge of AI from the very beginning of his papacy, explaining to an audience of cardinals in May that he chose his papal name to honor Pope Leo XIII, who used his position to speak up for workers during the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century. Leo XIV wants to guide the Catholic Church as it “offers its trove of social teaching to respond to another industrial revolution and to innovations in the field of artificial intelligence that pose challenges to human dignity, justice and labor.”

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Being Catholic is a beautiful, powerful, life-changing gift.

We are the Church founded by Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago, continuing the apostolic succession in an unbroken line through the centuries.

We consume his Body and Blood so that he is really present with us and makes us more like himself every time we receive him.

The fullness of the truth is in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, in both reason and faith. We enjoy undaunted intellectual explorationwhile respecting the holy mysteries that give our lives meaning and purpose.

We have the examples of the saints to support and guide us, and we can find a Catholic Mass anywhere we go on this planet.

It’s an incredible thing. But sometimes — actually quite often — the world doesn’t understand who we are, what we believe, and what we stand for.

When these situations arise and someone challenges our beliefs, we can always find the answer with a little research. But it also helps to be prepared ahead of time with an understanding of how our faith responds to tricky scenarios.

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[1991 Sign in Manhattan, New York that reads: "Don't give up! Pray. It works! The family that prays together stays together."]

Satan is the Master of Disunity. True unity comes from love which is an integral part of the Kingdom of God. But everywhere Satan goes, he promotes a lack of unity, misunderstanding, and conflict. In fact, one of the first signs he is particularly active in a place is an emerging strong discord whose intensity is difficult to explain.

At SMC (St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal), we work diligently to overcome the wiles of Satan's disunity in our ministry. During exorcism sessions, out of the mouths of the demons regularly comes comments promoting distrust and conflict among members. In between sessions, the demons sow seeds of distortion and distrust in our minds. Attacks from Satan's minions are also aimed at breaking down team coherence and its ministry.

Thus, regular communication is critical. Patience, love and prayer are fundamental. We begin the day celebrating the Mass together. We enjoy a meal around the table together. We meet before and after each session, and we have regular meetings to promote good communication.

Satan also promotes disunity on a global scale. He incites wars and international conflict. He is especially active on the local level in the family. The family is the bedrock of civilization and Satan is out to destroy it. He knows how critical the family is.

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Just saying...

Without going into all the history behind this, this is a warning from God to all of us, especially to us who profess faith in Jesus Christ. We are to see to it that we do not refuse God who is speaking to us through his word, and through the Holy Spirit, and through his servants and witnesses who are obeying him in teaching the truth of the gospel of our salvation and not the lies which are spreading so rapidly, which are teaching a false and diluted and altered gospel message absent of repentance and obedience to God.

And we can read more on this subject in 1 Corinthians 10:1-22. There we read that God was not pleased with most of the Israelites who were with Moses in the wilderness, and so he had them put to death, and they did not get to enter into his eternal rest because of their disobedience, which God regarded as unbelief (see Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13). For many of them were involved in idolatry, adultery, sexual immorality, drunkenness, and revelry, in putting Christ to the test and in grumbling against God.

And these things happened, and they were written down for us as examples to us so that we will not crave evil things as they did with the same result. For just as they were put to death for their disobedience and for their sinful rebellion against God, and for their refusal to obey him, and they did not get to enter into God’s eternal rest, the same will happen to us if we do what they did. For the New Testament Scriptures teach that if we walk in sin, and not in obedience to God, that we will not have eternal life with God.

So, if we think that we are in right standing with God, just because we made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, then we need to think again. For the Scriptures do not support that. They teach that, by faith in Jesus, we must die to sin and walk (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord, in practice, and no longer in sin, or we don’t have salvation from sin. For we don’t know God, we are not in fellowship with God, and we do not have eternal life with God if sin is what we practice and not obedience to our Lord and to his commands.

So, please take this to heart, and please study the Scriptures in their fulness in their correct biblical context, and not out of context. For many liars are spreading lies by teaching the Scriptures out of context and twisting them to say what they do not say, in truth. And they are leading the masses astray and to hell, on the promise of heaven with God, while they pacify them in their sins and they refuse to confront them with the gospel which teaches we must die to sin and obey God if we want to have eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

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Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

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In our Lord, and interceding
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To obey their God today.
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For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
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keras said:

But He has not yet taken it up. As we can all plainly see, from the mess the world is in.

A wrong statement if I ever saw one! Refuted by; Isaiah 2:1-4, Zechariah 14:16-21

You just make a confusing mishmash of Revelation 19 to 20. They are a sequence of events, not all together.

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None of the verses you posted say what you’re claiming it does.

The Bible especially prophecy is based on repeat and enlarge. If you are trying to go through it in chronological order, it’s not going to make sense.

I know your set in your view so no point in trying to reason so I’ll agree to disagree.

Take care

Hey, Tyler! I have been right there where you are at. I had twins a year ago and I had a really serious injury leaving me not walking for months and months. I started my journey as a new mommy in a wheelchair while my husband was working 70 hour weeks. A strict routine and schedule will help you out a lot. Hang in there. You got this!

Yes, good news coming out of a liberal state. Society's losing the war but we appreciate the won battles.

Godcrazy said:

God has given me the fire from him
It burns it wants to do, it wants to go for him,
it wants to preach, it wants to live holy, it wants to change
things for him with him it wants to scream it wants to
warn against sin
anyone else have it like this?

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Speaking of Fire from God.....
I was a rather rabid Atheist until around 1972 when Evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong got me out of Atheism.....
partly due to his flawed teachings on Soul Sleep.

By 1979 I got baptized by the Worldwide Church of God....
By 1991 I knew that I could no longer fit in with the Worldwide Church of God because I knew that the Soul Sleep teaching was terribly in error..... Eight years ago I was a mess and I knew it.... but six years ago I was led to the online lectures by Kevin Zadai Th. D. who I first heard on the Sid Roth telecast......

These past six years have been a time for me to be roasted.... barbecued... boiled... .fried..... poached and toasted by the Holy Spirit as a lot of my demons or devils have been burned out of me through the Holy Fire that Dr. Kevin Zadai teaches for free through youtube .com

IbelieveGod said:

David you said the souls of the dead are in heaven…not yet reunited with our bodies….
I don’t understand why the need to separate our soul from our body?

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It's an unnatural condition because of death. Without death, this would never happen. But because of death, the body dies. We aren't just bodies though, that aspect or part of ourselves that is more than just the body, we usually call that the human soul, or spirit. There are a lot of different ways Christians have tried to define the soul over the centuries; but at the end of the day what we're getting at is the reality that human beings are more than just biological machines--we have a sense of individuality and self, we have reason, will, feeling, we are moral creatures who are able to learn right from wrong, etc. That's the soul, and that doesn't just disappear when the body dies--the human person doesn't just go poof from existence when we die.

In some way, somehow, we continue to exist; and that conscious existence is for those who are in Christ present with Christ.

And so we then speak of the resurrection of the body as also the re-union of body and soul, because that's how we were meant to exist. God did not create Adam as a disembodied soul and then put it into a body of flesh; God took dust from the earth, breathed life into it, and it became a living soul.

-CryptoLutheran

God calls, HS convicts, individuals choose.

jacks said:

There's nothing wrong with enjoying things in your life. Putting God first is what I need to do more often. I can't think how that would be "annoying/tiring". To me it is more of a mental thing. I recognize He is sovereign and try not to do things that are against His will, but I don't feel it is overly restrictive, He wants us to be happy and do what is best for us.

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it just seems like the way i go about it a lot of times makes it seem like some barrier that i have to deal with before i do some type of activity. Lately its just been bad mentally where a lot of things just seems sinful to me and i just want it to end. I dont want my relationship with God to be like this. One of the things I pray for is that my brain can be fixed.

I contacted a priest at another church. He's strong on this issue. He said that the church where the presentation was held harbors illegals and that the presenters were lying by omission that they came here without proper paperwork and were making it look like ICE was this meanie weenie thing wrongfully arresting people. Who knows. I did feel like I wasn't being given the full story at the presentation, because after all, there are Hispanic migrants here who are not being arrested because they might at least be trying to get citizenship. The priest told me that those migrants were supposed to start applying for citizenship in their own country. Someone told me at my table that Hispanics take up to 3 generations to get citizenship because they're not white. Sigh. What an unpleasant evening it was.

Isn't that just appealing to religious belief?​

Why is always a good question. I’ll start with a question from my daughter.

My daughter aspires to be a veterinarian, and she is well on her way. She has a summer job at a vet clinic, interned at a vet clinic last summer, and visited my cousin and her husband, who are both veterinarians with their own state-of-the-art clinic, the summer before that. One of the first questions a budding veterinarian must ask herself is whether she can handle sick and dying pets. It’s one thing, my cousin told her, to love animals but quite another to see them suffering or to euthanize someone’s pet. We talk a lot about this, and the other day we had a conversation about the difference in humans and animals. She’s heard me talk about the rational soul enough to know the philosophical answer, but she was rather surprised when other people challenged her, “If we can do it to animals, then we can do it to people?” Just saying “rational soul” didn’t cut it.

I’ve had this discussion often in Catholic circles, and I always come to the conclusion that you cannot argue about ethics or morality without getting into what it means to “be human,” and you cannot do that without talking about the rational soul, and you cannot do that without invoking the Holy Trinity. I say this as a convert who was once beholden to the materialist mindset.

But, Aristotle…?​

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He pushes boundaries as to where he makes things meaningless imo.

May Our heavenly father bless and protect the innocent.

I have the same issue with my two oldest brothers. I miss them, but there's not a lot I can do about it, so I just remind myself of Joseph and his brothers. They haven't come to the part where whether I'm in Egypt or Israel, we're still brothers in our God's plan and we're stuck with each other. Even if we don't talk now, we will someday. And it won't be about something as menial as to what denomination I am.
If you need that relationship in your life, then you call him and become too irritating for him to ignore like he was when you were just trying to be his brother.

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BCP1928 said:

You shouldn't be--this is old news,

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It's hard to keep up with the establishment media hoaxes.

John and Kara Lilly tend to their newborn son Francis Roy Lilly in the INOVA Fairfax NICU following his traumatic birth April 1.

According to Kara, after months of an uncomplicated pregnancy, she started going into labor three weeks early. She was admitted to StoneSprings Hospital Center in Dulles and received an epidural. Kara lost track of time after that, but remembered a nurse came in for a vitals check. That is when she first heard those dreaded words — “I can’t find the heartbeat.”

“Suddenly, all the nurses were in the room,” said Kara. “Then they were rushing me into the operating room for an emergency C-section. I was just praying, ‘Lord, please save my baby,’ the whole time. It took 18 minutes for the doctors to resuscitate him.”

Kara remembers hearing Francis cry twice before she started to go into shock from blood loss. Doctors worked to save her life while Francis, who had swallowed a significant amount of meconium, was flown to the NICU at Inova Fairfax. He was baptized and confirmed that day by the couple’s friend, Youth Apostles Father Peter Clem, parochial vicar of the Basilica of St. Mary in Alexandria.

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As Pope John Paul II lay suffering in the last weeks of his life, he may have prayed the Lord send someone to carry the torch of his priesthood, rooted as it was in a love for young people and a heart attuned to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. If so, he found that someone in Father Timothy Tarnacki, director of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Office of Ministry With Young Adults.

Just as Pope John Paul would spend the early years of his priesthood listening to the heartfelt desires of young adults on hikes through the mountains and the reading of Scripture by the light of a campfire, so has Father Tarnacki’s mission with young adults born similar fruit.

At least five marriages and several vocations have resulted from his work leading the young adult group at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown. Like the saintly pope, Father Tarnacki also was born in Poland, and he fills his young adult events with hikes, bonfires and even the occasional roller coaster ride.

Mostly, he listens. In fact, his young adult ministry began by listening to them in the confessional.

“I encountered many young adults, college students or young adults in their 20s and 30s, and I began really listening to what they were saying and listening to the deeper desires and longings that they were expressing and the challenges that they were facing,” he said. “On some level I could identify with a lot of those things, and I felt the call to respond to that in some way.”

It was a natural extension of his devotion to St. John Paul II, and it started with a dream.

Heeding the Call of a Dying Pope​

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Hikes, Hope, and Holiness: How One Priest is Reaching a New Generation

Pauline Father Timothy Tarnacki leads ministry to young adult Catholics in the Philadelphia region by taking a cue from his compatriot, St. John Paul II: listen to, walk with, and form relationships with young adults.

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