Published on  Monday, May 25, the Pope signed the encyclical on May 15, the 135th anniversary of the  promulgation of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum

Pope Leo XIV establishes a Vatican commission on AI, placing the Holy See at the global forefront in this field

The initiative, formally approved through a rescript published on May 16, reflects the Pope’s conviction that artificial intelligence is not merely a technical matter for engineers or governments, but a profound anthropological challenge capable of reshaping labor, communication, culture, politics and even humanity’s understanding of itself.