Séamus Mulholland OFM, "The Grandeur of Humanity and the Challenge of Artificial Intelligence: Examination and Exploration of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical"; www.franciscanpublishing.com (28 May 2026).
"Rarely does a papal document arrive with both the historical weight and the intellectual precision to genuinely unsettle the age it addresses. Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, released on 25 May 2026 and signed on the 135th anniversary of Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, is that uncommon thing: a document of the Magisterium that reads not as a cautious institutional statement but as a sustained theological argument, one that is prepared to name dangers clearly, to think at depth, and to call both the Church and the world to a reckoning."
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