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Less than two weeks after Pope Leo XIV published an encyclical warning artificial intelligence (AI) companies against constructing “a new Tower of Babel,” the multibillion-dollar AI company Anthropic is calling for a global pause or slowdown in development. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark and Anthropic Institute head Marina Favaro published a blog on June 4 warning…
More than 75,000 people participated in the “Totus Tuus” (“Completely Yours”) Marian event held on Saturday, May 30, at the Serra Dourada Stadium in the city of Goiânia, Brazil. According to the organizers, this marked the largest attendance recorded to date. Additionally, more than 18,000 people followed the event via screens set up outside the…
The U.S. bishops are urging Congress to reject a bill that would make noncitizens labeled as gang members deportable based on a “reason to believe” standard. The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill, H.R. 175, on June 3, which sponsor Rep. Tom McClintock, R-California, named the Deport Alien Gang Members Act. House consideration is the…
The Food and Drug Administration’s safety investigation of the chemical abortion pill mifepristone, used in most abortions, is progressing, according to a senior FDA official. The official claimed that a study has been ongoing for months, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. “The FDA has been actively working on a science-based safety review…
Four Nigerian men have been sentenced to death by a court after being found guilty of carrying out the Pentecost massacre, an attack on St. Francis Xavier Parish in the city of Owo, Nigeria, on June 5, 2022, that left at least 40 people dead. On that day, the men entered the church during Pentecost…
Pope Leo XIV will visit Spain from June 6–12, making stops in Madrid, Barcelona, the Canary Islands, and Tenerife. This is the ninth time a pope has visited the country. John Paul II visited Spain five times and Benedict XVI traveled there on three occasions. During this trip, Pope Leo will take part in 20…
Hundreds of Catholics processed through Williamsburg, Virginia, on the morning of June 5 as the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage made its way through the colonial-era capital city in the eastern part of the state. A team of priests carried the Blessed Sacrament in a monstrance through the campus of the College of William & Mary, the…
In Glasgow, Kentucky, this year a man allegedly replaced his girlfriend’s medication with abortion drugs. Her baby survived — but in many other cases, women have lost their babies due to the rising crime of forced abortions, documented in a recent tracker by Heartbeat International, a worldwide pregnancy help center group. The abortion pill can…
The Globe and Mail newspaper in Canada, considered the most widely read newspaper in the country, has admitted to a “failure of journalism” in 2021 with its reporting of “mass graves” at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. In a May 30 editorial, the newspaper’s editorial board wrote that the claim that 215 childrenʼs remains had…
Pope Leo XIV received members of German Catholic student associations at the Vatican on June 5, reminding them that they “represent Catholic values in society not as those who carry partisan flags but as representatives of the common good of humanity.” In his address in the Paul VI Audience Hall, the Holy Father also highlighted…
