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Meta Oversight Leader Warns of ‘New Threats to Human Dignity’ From Big Tech

Zelda Caldwell
Paolo Carozza, a Notre Dame professor of law and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, serves on the board overseeing Meta’s content moderation decisions.

Notre Dame’s Paolo Carozza argues that Big Tech’s influence is reshaping how we understand the human person — and says the Church must help recover a deeper vision of human dignity.

Doctor of Fátima Visionary Shares Moving Conversion Story

Lucia dos Santos is pictured around the time of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, which began in 1917. Pope Francis declared Lucia Venerable in 2023.
Lucia dos Santos

Dr. Branca Pereira Acevedo, who cared for Venerable Lúcia dos Santos for 15 years, says the Fatima visionary served as the vehicle for a profound conversion in her life.

What Is ‘Papal Infallibility?’

Daniel Ibañez
When Pope Pius IX declared the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary on Dec. 8, 1854, he had a golden crown added to the mosaic of Mary, Virgin Immaculate, in the Chapel of the Choir in St. Peter’s Basilica.

'Ineffabilis Deus,' which proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Concenption, is among the papal pronouncements that theologians have long considered to be 'infallible.' But what does papal infallibility mean in the context and history of the Church?