Jeanie Hannaman

By Caroline Perkins, ChurchPop - Early in his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV visited the Shrine of the Mother of Good Counsel near Rome. The shrine is home to a famous image of the Virgin Mary that, according to Catholic tradition, appeared there under miraculous circumstances... The Basilica of Our Lady of Good Counsel sits in Genazzano, Italy... The basilica’s website sheds light on the origin of this miraculous image, saying, “Prince Pietro Giordan Colonna, whose family had acquired lordship of the city, entrusted the church to the Augustinians in 1356. The notarial deed drawn up states that the church was a parish and was already called Santa Maria del Buon Consiglio. ..."

By Kate Quiñones, Catholic News Agency - As artificial intelligence (AI) has become more widespread, a Catholic bioethics expert is warning against the dangers posed by it, saying it's “not too late” to “put the genie back in the bottle” and avoid the worst effects of the new technology... Pope Leo XIV has already warned that AI could have negative effects on the development of young people and contribute to a “loss of the sense of the human.”... “He took the name Leo XIV to connect himself to Leo XIII, who himself was dealing with the Industrial Revolution of the late century, which totally transformed culture,” moral theologian Charles Camosy, a bioethics professor at the CUA ...

By Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ, Crisis Magazine - There’s good news and there’s bad news. The problem is that the good news isn’t very good, and we don’t know (yet?) how bad the bad news can be. Yes, you guessed it: I’m talking about “synodality.”.. The good news is that “synodality” might actually be meaningless. (That raises some questions about why, then, we are spending so much time, energy, and money on the topic; but let’s try to manage one conundrum at a time.) The bad news is that, precisely because “synodality” is a meaningless term (and “meaningless” will be defined below, shortly), it can be used to signify—or worse, justify—anything.