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Not About AI, by Joseph R. Wood – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Not About AI, by Joseph R. Wood

All That Matters: A Return to the Eucharistic Heart of the United States of America, by Jeffrey Bruno

May 28, 2026

Saint of the Day: Saint William of Gellone (755–812)

May 29, 2026

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, 1872 [Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow]

By Joseph R. Wood, The Catholic Thing, May 29, 2026

Joseph Wood is Collegiate Assistant Professor in the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America. He is a pilgrim philosopher and easily accessible hermit.

Note: As Professor Wood lucidly explains today, the choice of path – between a desire for comfort and doing what’s right – is not new. And in several ways the stakes are even clearer now. Which reminds me that we’re well into our funding campaign now. And I need to urge more of you to choose what’s right and support our work. There are no guarantees for a venture like The Catholic Thing. No endowment, no government grants, no assurances about the morrow. All we have is you. Please, if you’re here, you know why you’re here. Just do it. Support TCT. Today. – Robert Royal

Much is already being written at the moment about AI and the suitable Catholic response to it. So this column will not be about AI.

In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov has been driven, by his revulsion to evil in the world, to “rebellion” against God, and perhaps to the edge of insanity. He has written a poem, “The Grand Inquisitor,” which he recounts to his brother, the devout (if perhaps a bit naïve) Alyosha.

The poem is set “in Spain, in Seville, in the most horrible time of the Inquisition, when fires blazed every day to the glory of God.” Ivan does not admire Western rationalism and science, nor the Roman Church. ….

Not About AI, by Joseph R. Wood

All That Matters: A Return to the Eucharistic Heart of the United States of America, by Jeffrey Bruno

Saint of the Day: Saint William of Gellone (755–812)

By Joseph R. Wood, The Catholic Thing, May 29, 2026

Much is already being written at the moment about AI and the suitable Catholic response to it. So this column will not be about AI.

The poem is set “in Spain, in Seville, in the most horrible time of the Inquisition, when fires blazed every day to the glory of God.” Ivan does not admire Western rationalism and science, nor the Roman Church. ….

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