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The Machine and the Soul: What Two Catholic Thinkers Can Teach Us About Pope Leo XIV’s Message on AI

God loved the world so much …

Is God Inside Everything? How Thomas Aquinas Out-PanENtheists the Panentheists

Strange, Delightful, and Slightly Unnerving: Why Both Ezra Klein and Pope Leo XIV Warn That AI Challenges Human Values

What Basil, Augustine, and Chrysostom Still Have to Say About the World We’re Living In

Gospel Enquiry: Fear and Joy

Still Relevant After 1,600 Years: What the Church Fathers Can Teach Us About Living Faithfully Today

Remembering Cyprian Davis, OSB

Go and make disciples of all nations

Magnifica Humanitas: Today, the Church Speaks to the Age of AI

When Faith Gets Hijacked: A See-Judge-Act Look at Christian Nationalism and Catholic Social Teaching

What Say Ye Brené Brown and Thomas Merton: The Mask We Wear - and What's Underneath

Gospel Enquiry: The Spirit of Truth

Preach What You Practice: Why Catholic Institutions Must Welcome the Union

From the Inside Out

Merton, Cardijn, Rerum Novarum, and the New Things of Our Time: Magnifica Humanitas

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.”

Between Cloister and Cosmos: How Thomas Merton Found Himself Between Benedict of Nursia and Francis of Assisi

Deeper In, Further Out

When the World Changes Underneath Us: Leading for the Common Good in a Time of Political/Technological Upheaval

Gospel Enquiry: Life to the Full

It’s the Economy — And It’s Personal: Cathonomics makes Disciples

Why are Catholic social teachings and the encyclicals important as they relate to artificial intelligence and emerging technology?

Are we finally waking up to AI's ethical demands?

Remembering and celebrating with Jesus

Thomas Merton, Origen, and the Christian Case for Peace

Your Brain Is the Battlefield: Faith, Lies, and the Algorithm Reshaping Democracy

Enough of War: Pope Leo XIV’s Three-Word Mandate for a Wounded World

Gospel Enquiry: What if peace is a verb?

One Nation Under Whose God? What Catholic(Christian) Social Teaching Really Says About Christian Nationalism

The Quietest Intelligence

Thomas Merton's Radical Idea: True Prayer Makes You a Better Activist

He must rise from the dead

Which Catholic Church do you find yourself most Comfortable with?

When the Cross Becomes Synonymous with the Flag: Thomas Merton's Warning for the American Church Today

FAITH & JUSTICE~BOOK REVIEW & COMMENTARY

Blessings on those who come in the name of the Lord!

FAITH,JUSTICE, & CLASSROOM

No One Should Mourn Alone: Why Solidarity Is the Heart of the Beatitudes

Walking in Circles for Truth

Gospel Enquiry: The Seventh Sign

Kitchen Tables and Cathedrals: How Ordinary Families Could Shape the Church's Future at the 2026 Bishops Summit

Digital Dignity: Why Thomas Merton and Pope Leo XIV Matter for AI Ethics Today

When the Cross Becomes a Flag: Thomas Merton, Christian Nationalism, and the Media Machine Fueling It

I was blind, but now I see!

When Your Neighbor Changes Everything: Robert Dowd's Case for Religious Diversity as Democracy's Best Defense

Beyond Borders: Thomas Merton and the Soul of World Religions

Gospel Enquiry – An Unlikely Disciple

When the Bombs Become a Baptism: The Seven Mountain Mandate and the War on Iran

Your Faith Is Being Hacked:

On Mount Tabor, we ….

Are We Ready for the AI Revolution? What Faith, Education, and Culture Teach Us About Navigating the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Still Angry After All These Years: What a 1931 Pope Got Right About Big Tech, Gig Work, and the Broken Economy

Gospel Enquiry – Jesus tempted in the wildnerness

Lenten Theme: Catholic Social Wisdom – Foundations in a Digital Age

Breaking the Revenge Cycle: A Neuroscience Approach to Overcoming Racism & the Political Extremism we see in our world

How to Identify and Support Hope-Driven Politicians: A Guide to Transformative Political Change Using the See-Judge-Act Method

“But I say this to you….”

Strangers in the Global Village: Faith, Media, and Justice for Migrants and Refugees

Part Two: The Bridge Merton Built.

Gospel Enquiry - Salt and Light

Part One: When the Monk Met the Encyclicals and then Met the Machines.

Like a mother hen …?

Wired for Peace

Why We Must Study the History of Technology

The Kitchen Table Revolution: When Ordinary Life Becomes Holy Ground

Beyond Safe Religion: When Two Prophets Challenge Our Comfortable Faith

How I wish it were blazing already!

When Machines Read Scripture: What Every Biblical Student Needs to Know About AI

From Comfortable Christianity to Radical Solidarity: Addressing the Crisis of Our Time: When the World Hurts: A Catholic Blueprint for Courage and Change

When Faith Becomes a Fist: Teaching Against the Theology of Control

When Everything's for Sale: Catholic Faith Against a Distored Economy ~ Pope Leo XIV

When Algorithms Learn to Hold Grudges. Why AI Powered Revenge Threatens Us All!