What is an encyclical? Inside Pope Leo’s urgent warning about AI and the ‘culture of power’
(RNS) — Like the encyclicals of his predecessors across the last 135 years, Pope Leo XIV’s “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,” addresses the Roman Catholic Church to a present crisis facing all of humanity. Leo reminds us that the church “walks alongside humanity” and so the church cannot be “a stranger to...








