Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical outlines a Christian Humanism for an age of Artificial Intelligence. Join us as we unpack this timely work, considering the ways in which it builds upon previous Catholic Social Teaching to develop a vision of a more humane future and a technological ethics capable of guiding us there.

Instructor: John Buchmann is executive director of the Kateri Institute. He holds a PhD in religious ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity School and an MTS from Duke Divinity School.

Schedule:

July 28: Intro, Chapters 1 and 2

August 4: Chapter 3

August 11: Chapters 4 and 5