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The Choice: Rebuild the Tower of Babel or Rebuild the Walls of Jerusalem, by Dale Ahlquist – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Left: "The (Little) Tower of Babel" (c. 1560s) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Image: Wikipedia); right; a model of the Second Jewish Temple, in the Israel Museum. (Image: Ariely / Wikipedia)

By Dale Ahlquist, Catholic World Report, May 27, 2026

Dale Ahlquist is president of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, creator and host of the EWTN series “G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense,” and publisher of Gilbert Magazine. He is the author and editor of several books on Chesterton, including The Complete Thinker: The Marvelous Mind of G.K. Chesterton and I Also Had My Hour: An Alternative Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton.

 

While Pope Leo points out that our great technical advancements have created new forms of slavery, he misses the main form of slavery condemned by his namesake:

The first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (“On Safeguarding The Human Person In The Time Of Artificial Intelligence”) should of course be of interest to everyone. But it is of special interest to certain people like myself because it invokes Pope Leo XIII’s great encyclical Re rum Novarum, which is the basis for Localism, which is the new name we have given to Distributism—the social and economic ideal of G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc.

As you likely know, our current pontiff chose the name Leo specifically in recognition of that 1891 papal letter, which is rightly considered the foundational document of modern Catholic social teaching. Our Holy Father builds on Rerum Novarum to address the present challenge posed by Artificial Intelligence. …

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