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Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.
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What does it mean to be a human being? Are some people more human and some less so? Can a machine be human? Scripture and Catholic theology clearly teach at least three things about what it means to be human. First, being created in God's image means that human beings are relational creatures (since the Triune God is relational). As the Catechism explains, “By sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost secret: God himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and he has destined us to share in that exchange” (CCC 221). Second, we learn through the Incarnation of Jesus Christ that human beings are embodied creatures, neither angels nor animals, but [fragile] enfleshed souls. Bodies and materiality, the stuff of the world that God created, is good. Third, God created us with freedom so we might choose to love and worship freely. Pope Leo XIV in his recent encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, recognizes that technology may encourage human beings to be less human: less relational, less embodied, less free to choose the good. As his subtitle suggests, his main concern is to safeguard our understanding of the human person (click here to read the rest of this post - More from Mojo).
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Walking With God Where He Has Called Me to Be.
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For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9 NRSCVE)
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When Lucian asked me to join the Fish on Friday team by writing a blog, I thought, “Cool, I love to write, and I especially love to write about God. I am in.” Not too long after I said yes, the responsibility began to settle in.
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At first, I focused only on the task of writing and did not pause to recognize the blessing God was offering me. Over time, I have come to see that this invitation reinforces a lesson I keep learning: there are no coincidences on a journey with God. Over these past few months, I have come to know the Fish on Friday team as friends through their writing, their faith, and their example. They do not simply produce a website; they live what they share. (click here to read the rest of this post - Totus Tuus).
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