National Catholic Reporter
May 27, 2026
"I am convinced that this will prove to be a defining document for our era, a profound and prophetic document," said Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor Paolo Carozza, a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences who studies the intersection of technology and Catholic social thought. Holy Cross Fr. Robert Dowd, president of the University of Notre Dame, said in a prepared statement that it was "a deliberate choice" the pope signed his new encyclical on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII's landmark 1891 letter that established the modern foundation for Catholic social teaching.
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The Washington Post
May 26, 2026
“It makes me nervous,” Paolo Carozza, a law professor at the Catholic university Notre Dame who works on ethical issues as chair of the Meta Oversight Board, said of a partnership that could whitewash an industry long resistant to oversight. “I have no doubt the frontier AI companies would love to co-opt religious communities to bring an ethical imprimatur to their work.”
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Associated Press
May 26, 2026
“I am convinced that this will prove to be a defining document for our era, a profound and prophetic document,” said Paolo Carozza, law professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 and chair of the Meta oversight board. “Pope Leo is offering a clear, comprehensive, and coherent voice urging us to take responsibility for constructing a world in which technology will serve humans rather than degrade them,” he said.
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Politico
May 26, 2026
“Rerum novarum” also coincided with the Vatican’s support for worker activism on the other side of the Atlantic. Many Catholics in the U.S. at the time were immigrants, who often worked in jobs such as coal mining and steelwork that had become more grueling due to industrialization, according to Notre Dame American studies professor Kathleen Sprows Cummings.
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Axios
May 26, 2026
"Pope Leo has announced himself as one of the leading figures in AI ethics now with this document," Meghan Sullivan, director of Notre Dame's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, tells Axios.
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The New York Times
May 26, 2026
Meghan Sullivan, director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, said she often hears a concerning view when she meets with A.I. developers in Silicon Valley — “that only a few hundred people on earth actually matter right now: the ones building frontier models and the politicians powerful enough to regulate them.” “This encyclical is a direct rebuttal to that worldview,” she said.
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Newsweek
May 26, 2026
Eric Sims, professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, told Newsweek via email that "the Fed is in an unenviable spot right now."
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Bloomberg
May 26, 2026
Beijing has not, though, tackled structural problems, said Mary Gallagher, professor of global affairs at the University of Notre Dame — which include perverse incentives and a system that punishes local officials for problems, and not the central government.
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The Washington Post
May 26, 2026
By Vincent Phillip Muñoz, a professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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May 26, 2026
Paolo Carozza, Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, joins to discuss what primary moral or ethical concerns he believes Pope Leo wants to address with this encyclical on artificial intelligence.
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Newsweek
May 26, 2026
Paolo Carozza, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, told Newsweek that Pope Leo will be filling a “vacuum” of moral leadership on AI. While many people agree that this is a period of social transformation, he may offer a more coherent moral way of reflecting on that, he added.
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CNN
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May 26, 2026
Let's discuss with Paolo Carozza, professor of law at the university of notre dame and faculty fellow at notre dame's religious liberty initiative. Thanks so much for being with me, sir, I appreciate it. You have called this a defining document for our era. That is a massive statement.
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May 26, 2026
On "Inside Politics," Audie Cornish talks to Notre Dame law professor Paolo Carozza about Pope Leo's encyclical warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Carozza, who was nominated by Pope Francis to join the Pontifical Academy of Social Science, tells Cornish, "What he's really concerned about is what he calls a culture of power. What he's calling for is attention to the dignity of every human person."
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Time
May 25, 2026
“Republicans used to be able to vote to table these proposals, but they don't have the unanimity that they need to do that anymore,” says Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.
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NPR
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May 24, 2026
Pope Leo plans to release an encyclical on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to University of Notre Dame professor Meghan Sullivan.
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National Catholic Reporter
May 22, 2026
Among those in attendance was Meghan Sullivan, a philosopher at the University of Notre Dame who directs its Institute for Ethics and the Common Good. "Anthropic is one of these tech companies that really cares about educating all communities, including faith communities, about how these powerful AI models work and what they're good at and what the potential risks are," she said. "And I think right now it's a crucial time for Catholics to really understand this technology and how it's changing our lives and our society and what's likely to happen in the future."
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The Conversation
May 21, 2026
Richard Sheehan, Professor Emeritus of Business and Economics, University of Notre Dame
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National Catholic Reporter
May 21, 2026
Timothy Shriver, son of prominent American Catholics Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, received the University of Notre Dame's 2026 Laetare Medal at the school's May 17 commencement ceremony for his leadership with the Special Olympics, a global movement that supports people with intellectual disabilities that his mother founded in 1968.
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The Washington Post
May 21, 2026
By Alexander Kustov, associate professor of global affairs at the University of Notre Dame and the author of “In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular” and the “Popular by Design” newsletter.
Reuters
May 21, 2026
University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller said the recent decisions shared a similar idea: restoring state legislative action that 鈦爃ad been blocked by a lower court. The cases, Muller acknowledged, may inject uncertainty into elections due to their timing. "But it's not because the court has changed the rules," Muller said. "It's because the court has stepped back and allowed the legislature to act."
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