Pastor’s Letter 8.2.26

Pastor’s Letter 8.2.26

Dear Friends, Before ChatGPT and other AI options hit the market in 2022, many people believed that what made humans special was our capacity to solve abstract problems. Now we have software on our phones capable of doing this better and faster than we can. While...
Pastor’s Letter 7.26.26

Pastor’s Letter 7.26.26

Dear Friends, You might be wondering how much more Pope Leo wrote in his letter to us? Be assured, in this weekly letter, I have only hit the important points of the first three chapters. We have two more chapters to go. It may take us through the remaining Sundays of...
Pastor’s Letter 7.19.26

Pastor’s Letter 7.19.26

Dear Friends, Back in 1970, when I was a sophomore in high school, Alvin Toffler and his wife wrote a book entitled Future Shock to describe what happens to societies and people when too much social change happens too quickly. Toffler died in 2016 but had predicted...
Pastor’s Letter 7.12.26

Pastor’s Letter 7.12.26

Dear Friends, As Pope Leo begins his discussion on AI itself, he qualifies the meaning of intelligence. That paragraph has generated the most discussion worldwide: It is not possible to provide a single, comprehensive definition of AI. What can be stated, however, is...
Pastor’s Letter 7.5.26

Pastor’s Letter 7.5.26

Dear Friends, After the first two chapters of his encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, where Pope Leo reviews the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church, he begins the core of this letter – the new challenge of Artificial Intelligence. The first question you and others...
Pastor’s Letter 6.28.26

Pastor’s Letter 6.28.26

Dear Friends, The teacher in me desires to have everyone read the first two chapters of Pope Leo’s encyclical which does such a great job of summarizing the Social Doctrine of the Church. Given that this wish is not likely to be realized, let me give you Pope Leo’s...