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Pope Leo, AI, and Rerum Novarum, by Veronica Burchard – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Pope Leo, AI, and Rerum Novarum, by Veronica Burchard

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By Veronica Burchard, Catholic Exchange, Aug. 19, 2025

Veronica Burchard is Chief Operating Officer at Sophia Institute and Executive Director of Sophia Institute for Teachers. Before stepping into the COO role, Veronica helped found Sophia Institute for Teachers in 2013. For the last decade, she has played a key role in the shaping of Sophia’s catechetical formation programs, as well as the production of Sophia’s religion textbook series, now used in over 1500 schools and parishes, and is the author of A Pocket Guide to Rerum Novarum (Sophia Institute Press, 2025).

Editor’s Note: For more on this historical encyclical and how to understand it in today’s context, read this author’s newest release, A Pocket Guide to Rerum Novarum: Pope Leo XIII’s Landmark Encyclical and Its Application to Our Time, available from Sophia Institute Press.

 

Avatar photoLike many Catholics, I was transfixed by the recent conclave. That white smoke signaled not just a new Pope, but an American Pope who would call attention to the work of a predecessor who wrote long ago about things that are particularly relevant today.

In his first official address to the College of Cardinals on May 10, 2025, Leo XIV explained he chose his name “mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution.”

The title Rerum Novarum means “New Things.” Writing in 1891, Leo XIII looked back at the innovations of the Industrial Revolution that had dramatically reshaped society. From the steam engine and the cotton gin, to faster means of communication, to mass production and urbanization, these “new things” radically altered human life—especially work, family, and the relationship between man and machine. ….

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