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Pope Leo: opaque AI run by few firms risks "New Forms of Dehumanization"

https://variety.com/2026/biz/global/pope-leo-ai-encyclical-algorithms-threaten-dehumanisation-1236758186/

#HackerNews #PopeLeo #AI #Dehumanization #OpaqueAI #EthicsInTech #Algorithms

Monday, April 20, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/monday-april-20-2026/

RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/u.s.-and-canada-0m0p8ifgz/-/a-8yAbxekOSU-yvzn5zz_dqQ%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0

Fuck the Epstein Class and fuck the American President and everyone who enables him and his depravity
The Oligarchs want a world war to thin our ranks.
#EpsteinClass #Trump #PopeLeo #Tyrants #War #iranWar

We live in interesting times. The dissolution of the alliance between white US Catholics, their bishops appointed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict, and white evangelicals is going to make for some serious fireworks, when the Republican party for some years now has managed to convince white Catholics that voting GOP was their religious duty.

#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #LGBTQ #women
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What was unexpected: an American pope who would begin breaking that alliance and insisting that the US Catholic bishops, a majority of whom are comfortable with the alliance, start questioning whether it reflects real Christian, real Catholic, values. Ditto for the challenge to the 6 in 10 white Catholics who have voted three times for Trump.

#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #LGBTQ #women
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What has energized this movement all along has been resistance to rights for people of color, women, and LGBTQ people. This alliance laid the foundation for someone like Trump to come along and claim that God is using him to save the nation — when anyone with any real sense of Christian faith knows how blasphemous and ludicrous that claim is.

#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #LGBTQ #women
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In the 1970s, with white Southern evangelicals outraged that the Democratic party had passed laws recognizing the rights of people of color, the US Catholic bishops made a fateful move: they allied themselves with those white evangelicals and created a Religious Right movement that became an arm of the Republican party.

#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/tuesday-february-10-2026/

"Pope Leo, Rev. Budde, and Pastor Bryant showed us that true faith leaders do not oppress or demonize others and certainly do not deify a noxious politician (one whose conduct and rhetoric revolts even other MAGA pols)."

#Trump #MAGA #PopeLeo #MariannBudde #JamalBryant #FaithLeaders
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Jennifer Rubin points to three faith leaders who, in a dismal time in which many American Christians are actively promoting cruelty, exclusion, hatred, and outright evil, "stood out this year as undaunted proponents of decency, empathy, and social responsibility." The three leaders she names are Pope Leo, Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, and Pastor Jamal Bryant:

#Trump #PopeLeo #MariannBudde #JamalBryant #FaithLeaders
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/undaunted-in-faith

"As one of the nation’s most recognizable bishops, Barron’s words (or lack thereof) send a signal to both the faithful and the broader public.

His silence risks suggesting that the plight of immigrant families simply doesn’t merit the same moral urgency as the other issues he’s been vocal about. This is especially troubling given that he sits on President Trump’s own commission on religious liberty."

#PopeLeo #immigrants #BishopBarron #CatholicBishops
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"Barron’s silence is jarring given his stature. Here is a bishop known for media savvy and evangelization, even serving on President Trump’s own Religious Liberty Commission, yet he has said nothing about the ongoing deportation crackdowns — even as federal agents have been sweeping up parishioners in their raids."

#PopeLeo #immigrants #BishopBarron #CatholicBishops
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"One of America’s most prominent Catholic leaders, Bishop Robert Barron, has been conspicuously silent about President Donald Trump’s aggressive ICE raids on immigrant families.

This silence stands in stark contrast to the clear moral call coming from Pope Leo XIV. Earlier this month, Pope Leo implored the U.S. Church to speak out 'with one voice' against the cruelty unfolding at the border."

~ Christopher Hale

#PopeLeo #immigrants #BishopBarron #CatholicBishops
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https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/bishop-barron-wont-speak-out-on-trumps

Seems like I’m on a roll tooting about global religious leaders. Here’s an article about #PopeLeo encouraging #Catholics & especially #CatholicBishops to stand with immigrants, refugees, & all strangers in foreign lands. #LoveWins https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-leo-tells-us-bishops-address-trumps-immigration-crackdown-2025-10-08/

Sunday, July 27, 2025

Resistance inside Russia is growing: Su-27UB jet set alight in Krasnodar Krai — Ukraine’s F-16 have a new trick to avoid Russian ballistic missiles — After being battered by Ukraine, Russia hopes to ‘strengthen’ Black Sea Fleet — Russia could be ready for ‘confrontation with Europe’ by 2027, Polish prime minister says … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/sunday-july-27-2025/

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Russia revives obsolete T-62 tanks amid equipment shortages — Ukraine approves new ‘Murakha’ ground robot for combat use — Ukrainian drones strike missile, drone arsenal in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast — Russia has amassed 111,000 troops near Pokrovsk … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/sunday-june-29-2025/

If you want to hear the #NewPope say doobeeedoobeedoo, have it courtesy of Dr Geoff Lindsey's analysis of his accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33mhMYGwOY

#PopeLeo #linguistics #pronunciation #vowelShift

The Pope Is a Graduate of Villanova, Where the Church Bells Won’t Stop Ringing

The private Catholic university in the suburbs of Philadelphia has a new most famous alumnus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/villanova-pope-leo-xiv.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G08.ovGb.zy5liJLrTglX&smid=url-share

#AugustinianOrder #Villanova #PopeLeo #PapaLeon

@cafechatnoir @sindarina @BobHorowitz I follow a few folks on Bluesky (via the Tapestry app; I don't have a login) and this sounds right to me:

Pope Leo XIV is still going to be terrible on every issue that the Church is currently terrible on. That isn't going to change.

The good news is that this isn't walking back the limited reforms Francis instituted. And it is likely to mean a Pope who speaks up in areas where the Church is good.
(Eg migration, asylum, etc.)

And it's a Pope who is unlikely to be an active ally of MAGA and related fascist movements.

The bad was 100% locked in from the start. The good wasn't. And in 2025 America, I'll take anything slowing the descent or better as a win.

https://bsky.app/profile/questauthority.bsky.social/post/3looj23qtws2e

#NewPope #PopeLeoXIV #LeoXIV #PopeLeo