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AI experts and Vatican representatives gather at the Casina Pio IV to discuss how artificial intelligence can serve humanity, with calls for binding safeguards and international cooperation to protect human dignity and promote the common good.
Paolo Ruffini, the first layperson to head an institution of the Roman Curia, concludes his eight-year term as Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, with the incoming Prefect, Montserrat Alvarado, thanking him for “putting yourself on the line and for your faith.”
Celebrating 75 years since its establishment, the International Catholic Migration Commission will host a three-day event in Rome to reflect on “concrete ways in which faith communities and broader global civil society can - and must - work together to keep alive the promise made in 1951.”
At a meeting in Macau, Asian bishops, scholars, and communicators call for artificial intelligence to serve human dignity and for young digital evangelizers to receive greater recognition and pastoral support.
During its plenary assembly in Salzburg, the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) issues an appeal calling for an end to wars and conflicts: “True peace is not an agreement to be negotiated; it begins in the human heart.”
Pope Leo XIV has voted in the midterm elections of the United States, expressing his “belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes.”
Through a measure approved by Pope Leo XIV, the Roman Curia is strengthening protections within disciplinary proceedings—an initiative that reaffirms the centrality of human dignity in the organization of work.
Addressing participants in a meeting dedicated to AI, Pope Leo stresses the importance of keeping the human person at the heart of this technology to avoid the danger of threatening the common good and reducing people to data points.
In traditional greetings for the Hindu feast of Deepavali, the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue reflects on how Hindus and Christians can forge “pathways of peace together in ‘the spirit of Assisi’.”
During his mission to bring Pope Leo's charity to the suffering people of Ukraine, the Prefect for the Dicastery for Charity, Archbishop Luis Marín de San Martín, visited Zaporizhzhia and Poltava and witnessed the dramatic effect on children, many of whom are hungry and left to cope on their own.
Israeli election authorities have begun counting nearly half a million absentee ballots that could affect the final outcome of Tuesday’s election.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces three days of national mourning after at least 69 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a high-speed train collision in central Spain. The government promises a full investigation into one of Europe’s deadliest railway disasters this century.