The Conversation
May 29, 2026
By Yenupini Joyce Adams, Associate Professor of the Practice, University of Notre Dame.
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EWTN
May 28, 2026
Paolo Carozza, a Notre Dame law professor and human rights expert who co-chairs Meta’s Oversight Board, which serves as in independent check on the tech giant’s content moderation decisions, similarly appraised Magnifica Humanitas as “not an anti-technology document,” but rather one which “calls on each of us individually to examine our own personal relationship to the technological project that is transforming the world around us.” Carozza said he sees the real crux of the encyclical as not adjudicating whether AI as such is good or bad, but rather imploring all people — especially those with power over the ways AI is developed and deployed — to consider whether it helps individuals and communities become more humane, just and participatory, or whether instead it fosters exclusion, control and inequality.
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CNBC
May 27, 2026
“The back-and-forth dialogue between the pope and the titans of industry has rarely, if ever, been seen before,” said Paolo Carozza, a University of Notre Dame law professor, co-chair of Meta’sOversight Board and a Pope Francis-nominated member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. “It is a positive sign for many people.”
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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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May 27, 2026
Paolo Carozza, a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor and chair of the Meta Oversight Board, : “I am convinced that this will prove to be a defining document for our era, a profound and prophetic document. 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.”
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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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Department of Philosophy
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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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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