Pope Leo XIV must guide church through dangers of AI

Photo: Habemus Papam – Pope Leo XIV. Photo credit: Catholic Church (England and Wales) via Flickr. © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Opinion article by Fr. John Paul Kimes. New York Post – May 18, 2025.

New Pope Leo XIV used one of his first public appearances to expound on a critical issue for our time: the dangers posed by artificial intelligence. Catholics familiar with the church’s social teaching immediately made the connection to the last Pope Leo, whose encyclical “Rerum Novarum” (Of New Things) provided a coherent, nonpolitical, thoroughly Catholic response to the social challenges presented by the industrial revolution. […]

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