Most people don’t know how many AI startups have emerged over the past few months. Even in our Catholic circle, Magisterium AI has been the forefront of the Catholic AI space, with a robust database and thousands of users that have found the website extremely helpful. Other big tech companies have now made it their…
As the Troubles swept across Northern Ireland in the 1970s, entire communities were engulfed in the flames of sectarian conflict. Families were torn apart by death and destruction, as oppression and division sowed seeds of hatred that would span generations. Armagh was among the worst counties affected. The infamous IRA stronghold of South Armagh, where…
Pia Matthews, senior lecturer in health care ethics at St Mary’s University, London, told CNA on October 1 that if assisted dying is legalised in the UK this November, “there is real risk that funding to a hospice will depend on whether the hospice engages in the practice of facilitating assisted deaths, and this will…
For decades Soline Humbert’s name has been associated in Ireland with the debate over women’s ordination. Her recently released memoir, A Divine Calling, is as she says, “the story of a call that will not let me go.” Born in France and later making her home in Ireland, Ms Humbert lost her mother at 12…
Is a call to a car crash a priest’s worst nightmare? This September brought the kind of call most priests dread: “There’s been a terrible crash, can you come?” When details are sparse, the imagination goes into overdrive. Will it be a scene of absolute carnage? Will I know the people involved? What kind of…
On the second Thursday in October every year, World Sight Day is celebrated. Or at least it should be celebrated because sight is hugely important. Everyone has an eyesight story that is close to their heart. If you don’t, then you are very, very lucky. Almost everyone will be affected by an eye health or…
When he addressed an international congress on the pastoral care of the elderly yesterday, Pope Leo laid out the demographic premises for an honest assessment of Catholic life these days, but he didn’t quite draw out the logical pastoral consequences. Leo clearly acknowledged that rapid aging of societies is one of the key hallmarks of…
When should you cancel your subscription to a streaming channel? I’m not referring here to trying to save yourself some money, but more to save your sanity and also to object to some of the content a given channel is streaming. Netflix is currently embroiled in controversy over a show called Dead End: Paranormal Park,…
Childhood trauma impacts people’s lives in different ways and overcoming it differs from person to person. Sean Loone, a deacon of the Archdiocese of Birmingham writes in his new memoir A Million Reasons to Be Angry – Only One to Love: A book about Mental Health, Childhood Trauma, and Faith how his Irish mother’s faith…
At a United Nations high-level meeting in New York, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher of the Vatican said “technology is being used to exacerbate certain forms of abuse and violence,” adding that the gravity of the violence and abuse against women and children extended beyond sexual exploitation and trafficking. That technology he spoke of is the…
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