The English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 wasn’t an isolated outburst. Across medieval Europe, ordinary people challenged the authority of rulers who failed to live up to their end of the bargain.
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The pope has warned that AI is never truly neutral: it reflects the society that made it. He has called for ethical oversight – and protecting workers.
In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV has called for much closer regulation of AI technology, particularly in military settings.
While the US president may have exited Meloni’s political picture, Trumpism has not.
From its earliest centuries, Christianity was bound up with politics, with frequent tensions between government power and religious authority.
Pope Leo XIV does not claim to direct political outcomes. He claims the right, and the duty, to judge them.
Africa represents the fastest-growing part of the Catholic Church. The pope’s 2026 journey will stop in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Algeria and Angola.
The artist used daring imagery that sparked controversy from the moment it was unveiled.
Modern science is increasingly validating what many traditions have long held: Singing and chanting can have profound health benefits.
History and myth are different narrative techniques, and both can be used to stimulate national pride and cohesion and to celebrate events that defined a people.
Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.
The most recent Pope Leo’s writings about workers’ rights amid the Industrial Revolution form the foundation of modern Catholic social teachings.
In choosing his motto and coat of arms, Leo references the Order of St. Augustine, to which he belongs. He uses the identifying symbol of Augustine, a heart pierced by an arrow.
Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the South American country.
Because of the pope’s role to maintain the fullness of tradition and the unity of the Church, a pope cannot be conservative or liberal in a political sense.
The sporting world mourned the death of Francis − a lifelong soccer fan. The new pope is more of a baseball guy.
In casting himself as supreme leader and pope, Donald Trump inadvertently invoked the Christian understanding of the Antichrist.
Leo XIV will work to translate the ideal of one heart, one mind into structures that protect the vulnerable worker, the displaced migrant and the wounded planet.
In 2013, the Vatican released their recipes for conclave smoke.
A Filipino or Congolese pope would signal that Catholicism’s demographic heart now beats in Manila and Kinshasa, rather than Milan and Cologne.
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