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did you read the comment i responded to? not some ad hominem attack at all: the parent comment remarked the pope knew more about AI than American billionaires. The pope is Ameri…
by jjtheblunt · Aug 31, 2026
the Pope is an American billionaire at this point, in some Vatican sense.
by jjtheblunt · Aug 31, 2026
There is interesting debate about whether, and how much, LLMs were used to write parts of this encyclical. Generally encyclicals are written by a group of Cardinals and/or…
by hydrox24 · Aug 31, 2026
It blows my mind that the Pope can say more relevant words about AI than American billionaires.
by neves · Aug 31, 2026
Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas
by borracciaBlu · Aug 30, 2026 · 56 points
Their was no consensus amongst the Fathers of the church or later Christians and little dogma on the subject. Tertullian did hold that the their is a figure of anti-christ, a si…
by kodoman · Aug 30, 2026
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The pope is the bishop of Rome and the head of the worldwide Catholic Church. He is also known as the supreme pontiff, Roman pontiff, or sovereign pontiff. From the 8th century until 1870, the pope was the sovereign or head of state of the Papal States, and since 1929 of the much smaller Vatican City State. From a Catholic viewpoint, the primacy of the bishop of Rome is largely derived from his role as the apostolic successor to Saint Peter, to whom primacy was conferred by Jesus, who gave Peter the Keys of Heaven and the powers of "binding and loosing", naming him as the "rock" upon which the Church would be built. The current pope is Leo XIV, who was elected on 8 May 2025 on the second day of the 2025 papal conclave. Read more on Wikipedia