It is the Church’s responsibility to provide guidance on the ethical use of AI, ensuring that it promotes human dignity, social justice, and the common good.
Understanding Encyclicals Articles
Catholic Quotes about the Church’s Social Teaching
“The social message of the gospel must not be considered a theory, but above all else a basis and motivation for action.” (Pope St. John Paul II, 57)
Cardinal Parolin’s Address to CAPP, June 2024
Understanding the transformations that are already taking place before our eyes, as a result of their rapid development, is a necessary act if we want to manage the AI revolution in a socially just and ecologically sustainable way.
Understanding the transformations that are already taking place before our eyes, as a result of their rapid development, is a necessary act if we want to manage the AI revolution in a socially just and ecologically sustainable way.
The laity’s role is special! "In a word, ‘Christians must be to the world what the soul is to the body’." (Lumen Gentium, 38)
The laity’s role is special! "In a word, ‘Christians must be to the world what the soul is to the body’." (Lumen Gentium, 38)
Of the many times Pope St. John Paul II spoke about the role of the state and the political system, here are ten quotes that stand out to us.
Issues of life had been somewhat quarantined from Catholic social teaching and were considered a separate branch of moral theology. The implications for their integration into CST in Centesimus Annus were potentially huge but were not entirely sorted.
While Pope Benedict XVI identifies in Caritas in Veritate that implementing Catholic social teaching is a way for the lay faithful to "give flesh to their faith" he makes an even stronger case: implementing CST is a binding ‘requirement’ of lay spirituality – of living out our lives in the world.
