By Amer Youhanna A robot equipped with artificial intelligence is seen at the AI Xperience Center in Brussels Feb. 19, 2020. Photo: OSV News/Yves Herman, Reuters. In the previous reflection, I explored Pope Leo XIV's concern that technological progress should never come at the expense of conscience and moral responsibility. The final part of this reflection considers how these same conce...

By Rev Prof Eamon Conway Pope Leo XIV talks at a table with prelates and laypeople on 7 October, 2026, after he opened the weeklong Vatican meeting of presidents of bishops' conferences marking the 10th anniversary of “Amoris Laetitia”. Photo: OSV News/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media. The Assembly addressed Communion for Catholics who are divorced and civilly remarried as one of the sensi...

By Josephine Peterson Pope Leo XIV waves from his popemobile in St Peter's Square at the Vatican during his weekly general audience on 28 October, 2026. Photo: OSV News/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media. Catholics must not live their faith in opposition or "hostility" toward modern culture, Pope Leo XIV said, emphasising that integrating faith and culture is essential to living out the Chri...

By Rev Prof Eamonn Conway Pope Leo XIV talks at a table with prelates and laypeople on 7 October, 2026, after he opened the weeklong Vatican meeting of presidents of bishops' conferences marking the 10th anniversary of “Amoris Laetitia” Photo: OSV News/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media. In a special two-part report on the anniversary of Amoris Laetitia, University of Notre Dame Rev Professo...

Eighty young Catholics from the Neocatechumenal Way have this month set out across Western Australia’s South West and Great Southern regions to mark the Franciscan Jubilee Year, the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi. Photo: Supplied/Francesco Piccolo. Eighty young Catholics from the Neocatechumenal Way have recently set out across West...

Pope Leo XIV speaks with to Christopher Olah, co-founder of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, at the conclusion of a presentation on the Holy Father’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence," at the Synod Hall at the Vatican on 25 May 2026. Photo: CNS/Lola Gomez. By Amer Youhanna In this second insight o...

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, third from left, with Bishops from Oceania at the Presidents of Bishops' Conferences meeting in Paul IV Hall, Rome, marking the 10th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia, are Bishop Stephen Lowe from New Zealand, Bishop Rosario Menezes from Papua New Guinea and Archbishop Ryan Jimenez from Guam. Photo: Archbishop Timothy Costelloe. By Courtney Mares & J...

The letters AI (for "artificial intelligence") are placed on computer motherboard in this illustration taken 23 June, 2023. Photo: OSV News/Dado Ruvic, Reuters. In a special three-part series for The Record, University of Notre Dame Senior Chaplaincy Officer Amer Youhanna writes dialogue begins with genuine attention to the other and challenges us to move beyond oppositional ways of thinkin...

In Australia, parishes are invited to stand alongside communities in Malawi, the focus of Catholic Mission’s 2026 World Mission Month appeal. Photo: Supplied/Catholic Mission. As World Mission Sunday approaches on 18 October 2026, Catholics across Australia are invited to begin their celebrations by joining the universal Church in praying the mission rosary. Celebrated on 18 October this...

Pope Leo XIV is greeted by his personal physician, Luigi Carbone, as the pontiff arrives at Rome's Gemelli Hospital on 13 October, 2026, ahead of his surgery that afternoon to remove a lung nodule. The Vatican confirmed that evening that Pope Leo has lung cancer. Photo: OSV News/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters. Doctors treating Pope Leo XIV have said on 15 October that tests show "g...