Catholic Teachers' Lounge Podcast
Sep 8, 2026 · 14 min · 10 segments
Pope Leo’s first encyclical for the Church reminds Catholic educators that it is not our job to keep pace with the secular world. Join Jill and Colleen for a dive into Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitis…
And then I'm excited by this encyclical because it's diving into, and this is what encyclicals do.
They're of this time.
The Pope is a human who is writing to the church and the wider audience, so all of the, all those who, all the denominations who are paying attention to the Pope and his teaching in Christianity.
So the audience is not even, like the lay faithful.
It's, it's all people-
Yeah
... to say, "The church has an opinion about this," and it's of this moment.
So when you go back into encyclicals in the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, and you pinpoint things happening in those encyclicals, they are timeless, even though they were responding to things happening in that year or in that decade.
Yes.
And so they, they hold true in a way that helps us be in a bit of awe of how the church works, that we have a leader who has, um, who takes on the flock in a way that, um, is a direct line to God.
So-
Mm-hmm
... and all the way back to St. Peter.
So, um, all that to say, I love reading encyclicals.
I'm k- I really nerd out on it.
Okay.
And, but here's, here's what I think.
So if it's intimidating, so I always like to read things on paper.
So as I'm printing out my-
Yes
... document about AI, I'm like, "Oh, this is kind of thick." You know, like this is, I did double sides, but this is, mm, this is 15 pages.
Oh my gosh, never.
No.
No.
And then I'm excited by this encyclical because it's diving into, and this is what encyclicals do.
They're of this time.
The Pope is a human who is writing to the church and the wider audience, so all of the, all those who, all the denominations who are paying attention to the Pope and his teaching in Christianity.
So the audience is not even, like the lay faithful.
It's, it's all people-
Yeah
... to say, "The church has an opinion about this," and it's of this moment.
So when you go back into encyclicals in the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, and you pinpoint things happening in those encyclicals, they are timeless, even though they were responding to things happening in that year or in that decade.
Yes.
And so they, they hold true in a way that helps us be in a bit of awe of how the church works, that we have a leader who has, um, who takes on the flock in a way that, um, is a direct line to God.
So-
Mm-hmm
... and all the way back to St. Peter.
So, um, all that to say, I love reading encyclicals.
I'm k- I really nerd out on it.
Okay.
And, but here's, here's what I think.
So if it's intimidating, so I always like to read things on paper.
So as I'm printing out my-
Yes
... document about AI, I'm like, "Oh, this is kind of thick." You know, like this is, I did double sides, but this is, mm, this is 15 pages.
Oh my gosh, never.
No.
No.
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