Jeanie Hannaman

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - Loyalty is a republican virtue, and more than that.  “The American people have been chary of the word loyalty, perhaps because they regard it as the correlative of royalty,” Orestes Brownson says, in his great work on our country, The American Republic, “but loyalty is rather the correlative of law.”... That fact pops up from a cursory glance at the components of the word. It clearly comes from the French for law,loi.  Loyalty is loi-alty.  In Medieval Latin, it was simply legalitas.   Loyalty is most fundamentally lawfulness.

By Jonah McKeown, National Catholic Register - Could computer programs ever come to truly think and understand? Can artificial intelligence (AI) possess a “mind” the way humans do and, by extension, ever be described as a “person” with a soul?... If you ask some of the leading creators and proponents of AI products, at least some of them would answer “Yes” to these questions — a “Yes” that, if true, would raise other far-reaching and potentially dangerous ideas: Should AI programs be given rights? Should they be considered as equal in dignity to humans, or even obeyed as our superiors?!