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By Francis X. Rocca, National Catholic Register, June 1, 2026
Francis X. Rocca is the Vatican Editor for EWTN News. He has covered the Vatican since 2007, most recently for The Wall Street Journal, where he also reported on global religion. He has written for Time, The Times Literary Supplement and The Atlantic, among other publications. Rocca is the director of a documentary film, “Voices of Vatican II: Participants Recall the Council.”
The presentation of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, “on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence,” was the biggest event of its kind at the Vatican since the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ in 2015.
On both occasions, a panel of distinguished clerics and laypeople appeared in the New Synod Hall — the same theater-like setting where cardinals meet in the days preceding a papal conclave — to praise and explain a new papal document. But this year, the roster was even more prestigious, featuring a 10-minute talk by the Pope himself. …
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