Throughout “Magnifica Humanitas,” the two images used to represent the choice before us are of the Tower of Babel and Nehemiah’s slow reconstruction of Jerusalem. You can guess which one our Augustinian pope prefers—along with folks like J.

Pope Leo XIV just released his first encyclical — and it may be the most important Church document of our lifetime.

I’m not suggesting that a man like Pope Leo—the Vicar of Christ, the Bishop of Rome, the Servant of the Servants of God—would stoop to anything quite so base as “trolling” the onetime PayPal co-founder and current Antichrist alarmist Peter Thiel.

It comes after Leo said days after his election that he considered AI to be the biggest challenge facing humanity.

Lord of the Rings officially quoted in new letter from Pope Leo for his encyclical debut, titled Magnificent Humanity.

It took a little over a year for Pope Leo XIV to write more than 42,000 words of his first encyclical, which deals with the safeguarding of human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence.