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No Coincidences: Saints Beside Us on Pilgrimage

Mariano Salvador Maella (1739-1819), “The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary”

COMMENTARY: What began as a Marian pilgrimage through Europe became a lesson in Providence and the hidden encouragement of the saints.

The Little Mermaid’s Wager: When AI Speaks for Us

Daniel Ibáñez
A copy of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas is displayed Monday during the presentation of the document in the Vatican’s New Synod Hall.

COMMENTARY: ‘In the era of artificial intelligence,’ Pope Leo XIV warns in Magnifica Humanitas, ‘ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human.’

‘Magnifica Humanitas’: Pope Leo Invokes Justice to Combat ‘Anti-Human Vision’ in AI

Pope Leo XIV on April 8, 2026, in St. Peter's Square. The Pope presented his first encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas:' On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, at the Vatican on May 25, 2026.

Published Monday, the Pope’s new encyclical warns of a ‘culture of power’ fueled by the digital revolution and artificial intelligence.

Why Me, Lord? A B-17 Gunner’s Lifelong Journey of Faith

Mike Chapman
A vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress flies over Dunsfold, England, on Aug. 15, 2016.

COMMENTARY: After witnessing the deaths of his friends over Warsaw in 1944, Vincent Stefanek spent the rest of his life seeking to understand why he survived — and how God wanted him to use the ‘second opportunity’ he had been given.