Pope Leo XIV

And even if I can't say the name, identify that as God in some abstract sense, if I can't intellectually get there, I think that's okay.

And I'll end with, because I don't want to go on for too long, Pope Leo recently in the Vatican magazine that goes out, I think it was this February.

there's an area where you can write into the Pope like a letter and he like will pick some and respond back.

And there was this artist named Rocco from Reggio Calabria who kind of said, hey, I'm an atheist.

If you want to go back and watch that, it's on our YouTube channel.

It's a great discussion about, um, we talked about Pope Leo's encyclical, uh, Magnificat Humanitas.

We talk about the, um, Vatican document, Antiqua Nova.

Um, and really we sort of, uh, drew, drew a lot out of those tools or those resources.

Some of the things that Pope Leo really stressed there is that technology is never neutral, right? So technology becomes used, it becomes either used for good or used for bad, depending on the user, right? And so we want to, we really kind of talked about how you can let the rope in Catholic Fundraising a good way to use AI is to let the robots do the robot work so that humans can do more human work, right? So anything that, any technology that allows us to do the relationship building work of fundraising is we want to find ways to use that.

And so that's the summit.

You can go talk about that here.

And we are literally in the presence of a captivating technology that is de-skilling us in the ability to talk across difference.

Let me read you something from the Pope's encyclical, the Pope Leo's encyclical, which is-

[laughs] He's, he's on my side.

Yeah.

She knew that nuclear weapons and the proliferation of such during the Cold War was an enormous use of government money and resources and talent that could instead be funneled towards caring for the poor.

And Pope Leo has mentioned in the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, an arms race is not a good enough reason for making a ton of arms.

Blessed Floribert Mbwana Nshuti was a Congolese customs worker who was killed in 2007 at only 26 years old for refusing to let rancid rice be imported into his country.

He was deeply devoted also to serving his local parish.

Yeah.

It wasn't Pope Leo, but it was certainly Paul Owens.

Well, he was tall too.

So what position was he? Was he a, a-

6'10", yeah.

He was-- And so he-

He was a little different from Pope Leo.

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So we want to be able to do that.

Meanwhile, spiritually, from another country in Poland with our 55 pilgrims and John Leonetti, God is setting so much before us.

though sobering at times, as we were fortunate to visit the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, Auschwitz in Polish, Birkenau I and Birkenau II, the ovens that were there, and the great saints that emerged in the crucible that was present there, particularly Maximilian Kolbe and Edith Stein, Teresa Benedict of the Cross.

The Jewish woman converted by encounter with the truth in the writings of Teresa of Avila took her name and then with her sister as well, entering the car mall at Echt.