Topic - Magnifica Humanitas

Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence) is the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, released in multimedia on 25 May 2026. It dealt with these matters in great depth, and bore comparisons with Rerum Novarum (Of New Things) by his namesake Pope Leo XIII in bringing Catholic social teaching to bear on a contemporary technology. - Source: Wikipedia

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