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Cisco CEO meets Pope Francis, signs AI ethics pledge at Vatican

Chuck Robbins, the chief executive of the multinational digital communications conglomerate Cisco, signs the Rome Call for AI Ethics, a document by the Pontifical Academy for Life, on April 24, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

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Thoughts on Dignitas Infinita

When the always well-written and often wrongheaded New Yorker dislikes something, chances are good that I’ll like it – a principle that holds, with certain reservations, in the [...]
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Hunger for God – “After researching the origins and studying the sacred texts of major world religions, [Megan] zeroed in the Bible. Ultimately it was [...]
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“Welcome to the Reign of Gay”, a decade later

Ten years ago, I wrote a CWR editorial titled “Welcome to the Reign of Gay”. In some ways, it seems more like fifty years ago, [...]
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Humanality project helps Catholic students escape screens, engage reality

Across all sectors of society, strange and insane behaviors seem to be accelerating. With AI bursting on the public scene, mental health metrics plummeting across [...]

There is no going back, just going through

Features

Christopher R. Altieri April 22, 2024 21

“I just want to go back to before,” says FBI Agent Olivia Dunham to Special Agent-in-Charge Phillip Broyles in the pilot episode of the science fiction series, Fringe (2008-13). Dunham is a good agent who found [...]

The poetic waters run deep in Jane Clark Scharl’s Ponds

Books

Shawn Phillip Cooper, PhD April 21, 2024 2

In early 2023, Jane Clark Scharl debuted her verse drama Sonnez Les Matines to appreciative audiences in New York City. The ability to sustain a successful drama in verse—and good verse, at that—was a worthy testament [...]

Books

Telling children the story of St. Dominic, with help from man’s best friend

CWR Staff April 19, 2024 3

Eleanor Bourg Nicholson is an award-winning novelist, scholar, Victorian literature instructor for Homeschool Connections, a Dominican tertiary, and a homeschooling mother of five. Hound of the Lord: The Story of Saint Dominic, written for children and from [...]

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Dignitas Infinita needed some Familiaris Consortio

Daniel B. Gallagher April 18, 2024 22

The expressed intent of the recent declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is to “illuminate different facets of human dignity that might be obscured in many people’s consciousness” (Dignitas Infinita, Presentation). To [...]

Books

Raising kids in a family unfriendly culture

John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. April 17, 2024 21

HarperCollins, in contrast to so much of the “curated” publishing industry, is promoting real discussion about real issues facing America and her long-term welfare. In February, it published Brad Wilcox’s Get Married!, a book not [...]

Essay

The theological legacy of Benedict XVI

Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD April 16, 2024 26

Editor’s note: Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) was born 97 years ago today, on Holy Saturday, 1927. In recognition of that day, CWR is reposting this essay, originally published on Jan. 2, 2023, by one [...]

Books

Approaching Balthasar

Richard Clements April 14, 2024 24

Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88) is considered by many to be the greatest theologian of the twentieth century. Balthasar is said to have been Saint John Paul II’s favorite theologian, and he was one of [...]

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Dignitas Infinita: Strengths and Ambiguities

Fr. Peter Ryan, SJ, E. Christian Brugger April 13, 2024 31

The claim implicit in the title of the DDF’s recently published Declaration, Dignitas Infinita (DI), has generated considerable controversy. The matter of infinite dignity Do human beings have infinite dignity? Certainly, those who through baptism receive a share in the [...]

Social class today

James Kalb April 8, 2024 9

Ethnicity, class, and sex are always with us. Members of different societies develop differences in habits, attitudes, and loyalties that grow into cultural and eventually ethnic distinctions. A complex society includes activities whose demands, qualifications, [...]
Creation’s Rebellion: What changed after the Fall?

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. April 1, 2024 18
Cardinal McElroy, homosexuality, and the repudiation of doctrine

Larry Chapp March 17, 2024 114

Welcome to the Church of Perpetual Change and Confusion

Carl E. Olson October 19, 2023 68

I recently was on the road for a while and went to Mass at a parish (in another state) that I’d never been to before. The small church was quite lovely, the liturgy quite reverent, [...]
Synodality, Soteriology, and “Sharing the journey”

Carl E. Olson October 10, 2023 19
Who is really trying to replace doctrine with ideology?

Carl E. Olson August 28, 2023 181

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