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https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-04/pope-francis-g7-summit-italy-artificial-intelligence.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NewsletterVN-EN Get this!…There's a good reason why people call mathematics a "language" because it is a language - and computational mathematics is essentially a complex communicative tool made up of number series, strings of them to be exact, hence why this article is talking about the Vatican stressing the need for ethics surrounding how us…

https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/catholic-charities-isn-t-religious-so-sayeth-the-wisconsin-supreme-court?utm_campaign=NCR&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--N1XReZIDm8V6uOEQuCqmDICTBmKg5D-VFoofn5rQMkmnLnCU9COwiat6tOC8SUAzhM4R6nR-CaqhLNIB4SuUYxvS9kA&_hsmi=304339729&utm_content=304339729&utm_source=hs_email 👍🤣Too secular!!!? There you have it Michael Warsaw! Just like the St Vincent de Paule Society here in Australia! I mean, if the founder of 'Vinnies', Bl Frederic Oznam could see how it operates here in this country, albeit very "secularly", no spiritual mentoring, no focus on providing any kind of spiritual support to…

https://international.la-croix.com/opinions/dawkins-cultural-christianity-political-theologies-and-the-church-of-pope-francis?at_source=piano&at_medium=email&at_campaign=11588&pnespid=Aacv71NX9npJi16M_ZTMDh9QrEJo0Osqr1hHRLsBOYDK1iC4NPJW19mGsB4I_SSO8p1L8LoYlw There needs to be a balance and this balance means that the traditional European cultural Christianity needs to be reconfigured anew as genuinely welcoming in that true, authentic, Internationalist, Universal spirit of favouring solidarity with other cultural expressions of the Gospel and it also needs to recognize the invaluable indigenous Hebraic cultural contribution to…

https://international.la-croix.com/culture/the-passage-of-time?at_source=piano&at_medium=email&at_campaign=11588&pnespid=HbNz8ERctidLzU7P55TCSUVPuh8xxbBxtBxcRqAKIozKsvXr4tf.kOjhdP2gXFRuq3y8hH2f3w "The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life" Seamus Heaney God Forbid!! That is my earnest prayer. It need not be that way - the way that Seamus Heaney declared, as distilled from the cynicism of this quote - our lives 'set frozen in a mould of inertia, unable…

The Resurrection by Carl Heinrich Bloch (digital commons media)

The Anastasis (Harrowing of Hell) by Fra Angelico (circa 1440s) ¹ During the year of Our Lord's Passion, the Passover as it was celebrated according to Jewish Tradition was actually celebrated on Holy Saturday. Before His death at Calvary on Good Friday, Jesus celebrated the same Passover with His disciples on the Thursday because He…

"While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5 : 8) Today is Good Friday. The Stations of the Cross is an incredibly powerful meditation that can bring out for us those things and areas in our lives which Jesus is desiring that we understand more deeply, even though perhaps we have understood…

Here is my commentary on this video by Robert Barron. It is a reflection on some of the pertinent issues and points he addresses here. And it is a robust critique of some of his analyses. https://youtu.be/Pw-_mFRNvu4?si=uEpbLu6g8x0lp0Zf On the topic of how you get people in today's secularized world to see the dire cause of…

While faith can inform the bedrock of our experience, experience in and of itself does not always coincide with or reflect the Truth which faith so ardently professes or upholds. There are, I must say, those experiences which are by and large bitter & futile and therefore present themselves as none other than formidable obstructions…

As we come to the end of the Lunar New Year festival, a festival which each year, officially ushers in the new annual cycle of life as it is lived within the sphere of Oriental culture and tradition, it never ceases to amaze me upon reflecting throughout this two-week long adventure, how correlative and superlatively…