Pastor’s Letter 8.23.26

Pastor’s Letter 8.23.26

Dear Friends, Before Pope Leo gets into the challenge of using AI in war he offers an overview of the recent history of war. While not directly speaking to AI at this point in his encyclical, it is worth reading his summary: In 1965, the words of Saint Paul VI...
Pastors Letter 8.16.26

Pastors Letter 8.16.26

  Dear Friends, Pope Leo has generated a bit of controversy among the political class in the United States because of his opposition to the war we are waging against Iran. I am not sure why his opposition was a surprise to Trump and his team. Years earlier, St....
Pastor’s Letter 8.9.26

Pastor’s Letter 8.9.26

Dear Friends, In the last part of Chapter Four, Pope Leo discusses the possible new forms of slavery brought about by AI. When he does so, he acknowledges the sad role the church played in the history of human slavery and seeks pardon for it: Yet neither can we deny...
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...