A Franciscan friar has the Pope’s ear on AI and how it can help – or hurt – humanity
Rome, Italy AP Friar Paolo Benanti wears the plain brown robes of his medieval Franciscan order as he pursues one of the most pressing issues in contemporary times: how to govern artificial intelligence so that it enriches – and doesn’t exploit – people’s lives. Benanti is the Vatican’s go-to person on the technology and he […]
US military hospital chided for shift in Catholic pastoral care
United StatesAP The management of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center has drawn criticism from a prominent archbishop – and some members of Congress – by choosing not to renew a contract for Franciscan priests to provide pastoral care, and instead hiring a secular firm to oversee provision of those services going forward. For nearly […]
9/11 Museum acquires prayer bench used by Rev Mychal Judge
New York, USAP A prayer bench used by Rev Mychal Judge, a Fire Department chaplain killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on 11th September, 2001, was driven to the New York area on Sunday to join the collection of the Sept 11 Memorial and Museum, museum officials said. The bench formerly […]
Seventy-six Franciscan nuns test positive at monastery in Germany
Berlin, GermanyAP Seventy-six Catholic nuns have tested positive for COVID-19 after an outbreak at a Franciscan convent in north-western Germany, church authorities said Tuesday. Another 85 nuns received negative test results at the monastery in Thuine, not far from the Dutch border, the convent’s Mother Superior told The Associated Press. Exterior view of the monastery […]
THEOLOGY: IN NEW BOOK, RICHARD ROHR SAYS “UNIVERSAL CHRIST” CHANGES EVERYTHING
CATHLEEN FALSANI, of Religion News Service, speaks to Richard Rohr about his new book, ‘The Universal Christ’…