Children, Artificial Intelligence, and rights for their protection: this is what Pope Leo XIV thinks

Nov 13, 2025 18:29

Pope Leo XIV received participants in a conference on the dignity of children and adolescents and artificial intelligence. Photo: Vatican Media

Dicasteries•Protection of vulnerable people

Vatican announces date of its second report on protection against abuse

In Krakow, the Vatican’s Child Protection Body Seeks a Global Culture of Accountability

Oct 07, 2025 10:18

Valentina di Giorgio

Homosexuality•Protection of vulnerable people

Canada: First Adoption of a Girl by Three Men in a «Polyamorous» Relationship

One of the three gay men, LeBlanc, told CTV that they fostered the girl for two years before obtaining approval for the adoption. «Through that process, they learned that we’re a little different because there are three of us, but we’re no different from any other family.»

Oct 05, 2025 23:29

Rafael Manuel Tovar

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Protection of vulnerable people

Australian Bishop Returns to Ministry After Independent Probe Clears Abuse Allegation

Umbers, a member of Opus Dei and auxiliary bishop since 2016, had voluntarily stepped aside in early July when the civil complaint was first lodged, in accordance with both archdiocesan safeguarding protocols and civil legislation

Oct 04, 2025 22:45

ZENIT Staff

Causes of Saints•Protection of vulnerable people

Pedro Arrupe’s Legacy Confronts a New Test Amid Jesuit Abuse Lawsuit

The debate underscores a broader tension: how should the Church weigh the heroic sanctity of figures like Arrupe against their entanglement—however indirect—in systemic failures?

Sep 21, 2025 22:03

ZENIT Staff

Protection of vulnerable people

Bolivian Court Convicts Jesuit Superiors in Cover-Up of Predator Priest

The court found that Recolons and Alaix, who led the Bolivian Jesuit province between 1993 and 2007, were informed directly of Pedrajas’s predatory behavior, sometimes by victims themselves, yet failed to notify authorities or take steps to protect minors

Sep 09, 2025 18:05

ZENIT Staff

[PHOTO GALLERY] In the Vatican Gardens, Pope Leo XIV opens a World Week of Prayer for Peace with hundreds of children

The initiative runs from 1 to 7 October and unites children, families, schools, parishes, and communities around the world in a single prayer.

Leo XIV Goes to Argentina: How Popular Is the Pope in Francis’s Home Country? Study Published

The figures, released on September 23 by the polling firm Zuban Córdoba, provide an early indication of the reception Leo XIV may encounter when he reaches Argentina from Uruguay. The survey was conducted from September 16 to 19 among 2,000 people across the country, with a 95 percent confidence level, according to the pollster.

Children, Artificial Intelligence, and rights for their protection: this is what Pope Leo XIV thinks

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