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Change Lives by Warming Hearts

Fr. Billy Swan

February 14, 2025

We can’t evangelize people without loving them first. Proclaiming the Gospel is about leading people’s hearts to believe in Christ.

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The Vatican’s AI Ethics Trajectory

Dr. Steven Umbrello

February 13, 2025

This shift from an aspirational ethical statement to a more developed doctrinal and policy-oriented position suggests the Vatican is actively seeking to influence international AI governance.

‘Antiqua et Nova’ on Human and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Richard DeClue

February 13, 2025

The new document from the Vatican “Antigua el Nova” approaches AI as technology that presents both potential benefits and potential dangers.

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How Do Our Senses Influence Our Call to Love?

Mark Bradford

February 12, 2025

It’s a challenge to reform pathways that move data from our senses to our minds—from visible to invisible—so we can be instruments of love.

Place Your Heart in God

Bishop Robert Barron

February 12, 2025

Friends, on this Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we have the first reading from the prophet Jeremiah in tandem with the Gospel from Luke’s Sermon on the Plain.

Existential Catholicity in Our Political Times

R. J. Snell

February 11, 2025

At times like ours, with so much uncertainty and disagreement, our ability to be magnanimous and unafraid would be a wonderful gift to the world.

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First, Love Locally: JD Vance and ‘Ordo Amoris’

Dr. Richard Clements

February 11, 2025

The “ordo amoris” can be conceptualized as a series of concentric circles radiating outward from ourselves, beginning with loving God,

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‘Unstoppable’: A True Story Featuring True Masculinity

Dr. Kody W. Cooper

February 10, 2025

At its best, wrestling instills the virtues of masculinity like strength, discipline, self-control, and resolve, which are used well when put into service and gift-love toward others.

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WOF 476: Bishop Barron on the Theology of Balthasar (8 of 12)

Dr. Matthew Petrusek

February 10, 2025

We continue with lesson eight of Bishop Barron’s series on Hans Urs von Balthasar, one of the most important and influential theologians.

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Patrick Leigh Fermor Among the Monasteries

Andrew Tolkmith

February 8, 2025

Patrick Leigh Fermor’s chronicles reign among the most compact and illuminative illustrations of the consecrated life for post-Christians.

Jeanne DArc

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