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2026-06-03T14:05:16-06:00

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Magnifica Humanitas: Pope Leo’s Moral Mandate in 3 Points

Last updated on: June 3, 2026 at 2:05 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

I encourage all members of the Church not to be afraid of the present challenges, but to listen to one another and firmly embrace their responsibilities in building a more humane and fraternal society. ~ Pope Leo XIV Chapter 3 of Magnifica Humanitas is the point where Pope Leo stops explaining the Christian and Catholic basis for what he is teaching and actually starts teaching it. There’s more in Chapter 3 than I can cover in one post, so I’m going... Read more

2026-05-30T14:18:01-06:00

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Is AI a Toy? Or is AI the Terminator?

Last updated on: May 30, 2026 at 2:18 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

The basis for all that the Church believes about the moral dimensions of economic life is its vision of the transcendent worth — the sacredness — of human beings. The dignity of the human person is the criterion against which all aspects of economic life must be measured. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Life and Dignity of the Human Person I’m going to take a Saturday pause so far as unpacking what Pope Leo has written in Magnifica Humanitas. ... Read more

2026-05-29T18:28:58-06:00

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Magnifica Humanitas: The Church Coming as the Good Samaritan

Last updated on: May 29, 2026 at 6:28 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

When the dignity of our brothers and sisters is violated, when politics fails to address the tragedies of humanity, when the economy turns against the person, or science oversteps the limits of its competence, the Church must make her voice heard. Magnifica Humanitas There’s an old saying around these parts: When the buffalo fight in the swamp, the frogs lose. The Catholic Church, with its global reach and 1.5 billion followers, certainly qualifies as a “buffalo” in any public debate. ... Read more

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2026-05-28T15:03:39-06:00

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Magnifica Humanitas is Pope Leo, Repeating What Jesus Said.

Last updated on: May 28, 2026 at 3:03 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Press reports and discussions about Magnifica Humanitas have to be brief. They also have to titillate and compete for the attention of a public that is both overwhelmed and jaded by an unending deluge of “information” being dumped on it by the many channels of communication we have today. From what I’ve seen, the press, or at least the so-called “legacy” press, made an honest attempt to report what Pope Leo wrote as accurately as they could within the parameters... Read more

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2026-05-27T17:06:40-06:00

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Watch the Introduction of Magnifica Humanitas in 5 Videos

Last updated on: May 27, 2026 at 5:06 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Magnifica Humanitas is a milestone in Church teaching for many reasons. Pope Leo’s teaching is consistent with that of previous popes. He doesn’t overturn what the Church has taught for 2,000 years, he applies it to today’s challenges. Magnficia Humanitas stands on the shoulders of many previous encyclicals, including Rerum Novarum and Centesimus Annus. Laity’s Moral Responsibility to Work for the Common Good Pope Leo is teaching lay Catholics like you and me how to understand our Christian and moral... Read more

2026-05-26T11:02:24-06:00

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Pope Leo has Given Us a Massively Important Teaching

Last updated on: May 26, 2026 at 11:02 am By Rebecca Hamilton

Pope Leo has given us a massively important teaching that will inform Catholic thought and morality vis a vis technological development for hundreds of years to come. Magnifica Humanitas teaches that human beings are the purpose and reason for technological development. Technology that enslaves people and reduces them to less-than-human servants of the technology our society produces is technology that is being put to immoral uses. We — you and I — people everywhere; our advancement and betterment, is the... Read more

2026-05-26T08:03:49-06:00

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Will We Rule AI or Will AI Rule Us? Pope Leo Weighs In.

Last updated on: May 26, 2026 at 8:03 am By Rebecca Hamilton

One ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. The Lord of the Rings Today is Memorial Day in the United States. It is also the day that Pope Leo chose to release his first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.’ The release of Magnifica humanitas coincides with the 135th anniversary of the release of the landmark... Read more

2026-05-23T12:40:45-06:00

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Kentucky Repubs Vote the Straight Pedophile Ticket

Last updated on: May 23, 2026 at 12:40 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

I lost my election on the six month anniversary of the Epstein Files Transparency Act becoming law. Those buggers don’t waste any time. Congressman Thomas Massie We are dealing with satanic evil that has insinuated itself so completely into one of our political parties and whole denominations of our Christian churches that it has taken them over. It has reached the point that anyone who tries to speak up for basic morality — and I mean basic morality on the... Read more

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2026-05-08T20:15:25-06:00

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Vatican Ends Cause for Canonization of Soviet Gulag Priest

Last updated on: May 8, 2026 at 8:15 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

The Vatican has announced that it is closing the canonization cause for Fr Walter Ciszek. If you don’t know about Fr Ciszek, I encourage you to read his book, With God in Russia. As for the cause of his canonization, I don’t trouble myself about the inner workings of the Vatican concerning things like beatifying potential saints. I know that it can take hundreds of years for a saint to finally be canonized. St Thomas More is an example. He... Read more

2026-05-07T12:13:23-06:00

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We’re 9 Weeks into a 4 Week War We “Won” 8 Weeks Ago

Last updated on: May 7, 2026 at 12:13 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord. Proverbs 12:22a Trump’s idiotic, unnecessary, costly, and 100% failed Iran War shows Americans one thing. If we ever get into a war with someone who has the military power to really hurt us and Trump is our Commander in Chief, We. Are. Toast. Trump has lost his war with Iran in every way you can lose a war without actually having your home country invaded and bombed down to dust. After all... Read more

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