In a message for the Church’s Feb. 8 World Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking, the Pope warns that conflict and inequality fuel exploitation.
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AI needs to be trained on a theology of human dignity

(RNS) — Basing AI’s principles on ‘the moral view of the whole world’ is both incoherent and dangerous.
Dignitas Infinita, the new declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), affirms that “every human person possesses an infinite dignity” and enumerates assaults on that dignity, ...
Ours is a society of many backgrounds and beliefs, all united by shared values. Foremost among these values is commitment to the inherent value of every human being. It’s a principle we find in the ...
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, holds up a copy of the dicastery's declaration, "Dignitas Infinita,” during a news conference at the Vatican ...
How do systems of punishment reflect—or fail—our commitments to dignity and justice? Through personal testimony and legal ...
The infinite and inalienable dignity inherent in every human being has practical consequences which include protecting everyone's right to life from conception to a natural end and opposing the ...
The investment portfolio is a powerful lever that nonprofits and faith-based organizations can use to support their missions. Not all of the over 200,000 nonprofits that have investment accounts or ...
The tragedy of gun violence is not merely a 30-second news headline nor a blip in our otherwise mindless media algorithms. It haunts me, my community, and so many more since. What does it mean that we ...
Thomas G. Plante is the Augustin Cardinal Bea, SJ University professor, professor of psychology at Santa Clara University and emeritus adjunct professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of ...
(CNN) — The Vatican has issued a strong warning against “gender theory” and said that any “sex-change intervention” risks threatening “the unique dignity” of a person, in a new document signed off and ...