June 24, 2026:

• Adsumus Sancte Spiritus. Ancient Catholic prayer attributed to St. Isidore of Seville.

June 22, 2026:

• National Center for Home Food Processing and Preservation / University of Georgia Cooperative Extension. Current research-based recommendations for most methods of home food preservation including Canning, Jams/Jellies, Pickling, Fermenting, Freezing, Drying, Curing/Smoking, & Storing.

June 19, 2026:

• ChatGPT Classical & Sacred Font Style Guide: “For sacred art, Facebook graphics, feast-day banners, and illuminated manuscript designs, fonts are almost a world unto themselves. Think of them as vestments for words. The same message can appear regal, medieval, joyful, solemn, or contemporary depending on the lettering.”
• ChatGPT Graphics Styles Sheet: Includes: Classical Sacred Styles, Vintage / Retro Styles, Cinematic / Epic Styles, Painterly / Artistic Styles, Modern / Experimental Styles, Typography-Driven Variations, Cultural / Historical Inspirations, Mood Variations, also, an Aspect ratios chart.

June 2, 2026:

• Pope Leo XIV: Catholic Universities Must Lead Students to Christ: Addressing U.S. Catholic college presidents and rectors, Pope Leo XIV said Catholic education must cultivate not only a love of learning but also a deep passion for Christ, “the Truth,” warning that without this, students will be less prepared to recognize truth and shape their lives accordingly. Deborah Castellano Lubov | Vatican News | June 2026.
• Microsoft AI Director: Magnifica Humanitas Valuable for AI Development: Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical ‘Magnifica humanitas’ offers AI developers a valuable anthropological contribution as they design systems with which human beings interact at a deeply personal level, according to Taylor Black, Microsoft’s Director of AI and Venture Ecosystems. By Devin Watkins | Vatican News | June 2026.
   

June 2, 2026:

• ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ Seen Deepening Church-tech Ties: Former Silicon Valley Exec Father Brendan McGuire said, Relationships between tech companies and the Church will prompt “real dialogue as to how AI is going to affect humanity”. Father Brendan McGuire, ‘EWTN News Nightly’, June 1, 2026.

May 30, 2026:

• Pope Leo XIV: Address of “Magnifica Humanitas”
  Presentation and Promulgation of the Encyclical Letter. Monday, 25 May 2026.
• Pope Leo XIV: FULL TEXT Encyclical Letter “Magnifica Humanitas”. “On Safeguarding the Human Person In the Time of Artificial Intelligence”
  May 2026.
• Pope Leo XIV: Encyclical Letter “Magnifica Humanitas”. “On Safeguarding the Human Person In the Time of Artificial Intelligence”
  SUMMARY by ChatGPT.
• Archbishop Hicks of New York: ‘Magnifica Humanitas' to Shape Future Generations. Deborah Castellano Lubov | Vatican News | May 2026. "Pope Leo is raising the right issues, especially on the transforming nature of work, as young people of his Archdiocese ask: 'Am I studying for a career that won't exist in 10 years?'"

May 22, 2026:

• ChatGPT Graphics Styles Sheet: Includes: Classical Sacred Styles, Vintage / Retro Styles, Cinematic / Epic Styles, Painterly / Artistic Styles, Modern / Experimental Styles, Typography-Driven Variations, Cultural / Historical Inspirations, Mood Variations, also, an Aspect ratios chart.

May 22, 2026:

• AI Layoffs May Be Backfiring on Companies. New study says cutting jobs for AI may free up cash, but it may fail to deliver the payoff companies expect. Kurt Knutsson | CyberGuy Report Fox News | May 22, 2026.

May 16, 2026:

• "The Coach for Our Lives: The Role of the Holy Spirit in the New Millennium." © March 2007, revised May 2026.

May 1, 2026:

• Catholic Ethical Guidance for AI Consumption (by Magisterium AI): “Catholic teaching does not treat the digital world as morally neutral ‘technology’; it treats it as a new arena of human relationships where you are called to live charity and truth. The Church’s pastoral reflection on social media (explicitly aimed at Christians’ engagement online) offers a set of ethical orientations that can guide your digital media consumption as well.”

April 5, 2026:

• Repairing the Ruins: Why AI Can’t Replace Education. "In an era when AI can write anything, authentic education must go beyond the mere production of words." Santiago Schnell | National Catholic Register | April 13, 2026.

March 25, 2026: 

• Universities of Wisconsin Launch Free Online Artificial Intelligence Course Series -- AI Skills Access Passport“ASAP: AI Skills Access Passport is a free series of 7 short videos to unlock insights, sharpen your judgment, and strengthen your digital instincts. Each video earns you a new “skills stamp” that reinforces safe use, accurate interpretation, and sound decision making in AI assisted environments. By completing the series, participants gain a well rounded foundation, enabling them to engage with AI tools confidently.”

March 21, 2026:

• Rome Call: What is the Matter with AI Ethics?, Rome, February 28th 2020. The Pontifical Academy for Life, Microsoft, IBM, FAO, the Italian Ministry of Innovation (part of the Italian Government), signed as first the “Call for an AI Ethics”, a document developed to support an ethical approach to Artificial Intelligence and promote a sense of responsibility among organizations, governments, institutions and the private sector with the aim to create a future in which digital innovation and technological progress serve human genius and creativity and not their gradual replacement. Download PDF.

 March 11, 2026:

• Environmentally Conscious Franciscans about the Use of AI: I asked ChatGPT this question: How do I respond to Franciscans who are environmentally conscious about the use of AI when they bring up environmental concerns about high energy usage raising energy costs, and about using up water systems? There were a few more environmental issues I don’t remember. One was, how can I trust AI to give me an accurate reply.

March 8, 2026:

• ChatGPT: Keyboard Shortcuts & Writing Tricks. The Shift + Enter trick is the first “secret door” most people discover. It lets you add a new line without sending the message. Attached are a few other shortcuts that can make ChatGPT feel less like typing into a mailbox and more like using a real editor.

March 4, 2026:

• Anthropic’s Break With the Pentagon Ignites AI Ethics Debate: Jonah McKeown | National Catholic Register | March 3, 2026. “ANALYSIS: After rejecting Pentagon demands tied to autonomous weapons and surveillance, Anthropic’s stand has intensified debate over AI ethics — echoing recent Vatican warnings.”

February 13, 2026:

• Pope Leo XIV: “Integration of AI into Education”, 60th World Day of Social Communications, Preserving Human Voices and Faces.

February 1, 2026:

• Pope Leo XIV: 60th World Day of Social Communications – Preserving Human Voices and Faces. “Although AI can provide support and assistance in managing tasks related to communication, in the long run, choosing to evade the effort of thinking for ourselves and settling for artificial statistical compilations threatens to diminish our cognitive, emotional and communication skills.”
• National Catholic Register: “No, AI Doesn’t Have a Soul: The Catholic Understanding of Its Role in Human Society,” Jonah McKeown | January 29, 2026: “College professor-philosopher seeks the truth about the mind, soul and personhood in a new podcast series about artificial intelligence.”
• CBS News: The No. 1 skill employers are looking for: Megan Cerullo | January 29, 2026. “Candidates who demonstrate their fluency in artificial intelligence are much more likely to pique hiring managers’ interest,” according to LinkedIn career expert Catherine Fisher.”
• Columbia Business School: Generative AI for Teaching Excellence

January 26, 2026:

• AI and Necessary Discernment. Suellen Brewster | Catholic Exchange | January 26, 2026. As Jesus’ disciples, we have ordinary tools of Christian life. Let’s use them. Instead of being unwitting abettors of confusion, let’s choose to be lighthouses in the fog.

January 23, 2026:

• What Can We Expect from Artificial Intelligence? Thomas B. Fowler | Catholic Culture.
  • “The Divine Physician and a Christian Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing”: A Pastoral Letter. Most Rev. Michael F. Burbidge, January 2026.
    “As a priest and bishop, I have observed with increasing pastoral concern the emergence of a broad crisis concerning mental health that is negatively impacting Americans, and especially young people, in terms of their spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. The intent of this pastoral letter is therefore to offer encouragement and guidance, in light of the teachings of Christ and the Gospel, to all who wish to confront and overcome the modern world’s challenges to mental health and wellbeing. In this pastoral letter, I offer my reflections on the proper place of counseling in the Catholic life—when and in what manner we should make use of it in our pursuit of that authentic happiness that is holiness.”

December 30, 2025:

• Happy New Year: Assorted New Year Quotes, Stories & Prayers

December 5, 2025:

• St. Nicholas Center: Who is St. Nicholas? Who is Santa Claus? Are they the same? To educate people of faith, and the wider public, about the true St. Nicholas.

November 29, 2025:

• Advent & Christmas Resources for Reflection: prayers, poems, Advent Calendars, readings & sermon illustrations.
• Advent & Christmas quotations: an extensive collection of inspirational poems, reflections, stories and sermon illustrations.

November 19, 2025:

• Artificial Intelligence Is Not an All-powerful Deity, University Expert Warns: Nicolás de Cárdenas | ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 12, 2025. Ana Lazcano, director of the University Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Francisco de Vitoria University in Spain, warned that AI is not an all-powerful deity and it is necessary to “lay the foundations of critical thinking” about the technology. … Lazcano explained … “It is a discipline that has arrived like a tsunami, an interdisciplinary science that is sweeping us all away in every area, and we need a unified approach; we need to build strength together.”
   

November 7, 2025:

• Pope Leo XIV: Message to Participants in the Builders AI Forum, Collegium Maximum of Rome, 6-7 November 2025. "I express gratitude to the organizers and all who, through research, entrepreneurship and pastoral vision, seek to ensure that emerging technologies remain oriented toward the dignity of the human person and the common good."

October 28, 2025:

• “The School of Prayer: An Introduction to the Divine Office for All Christians” by John Brook (The Liturgical Press, 1992). Click on the little down arrow to the right of the Page 2 button on the top right for the drop down menu that includes: 1. Learn to Pray | 2. Whole People of God | 3. Morning and Evening Prayer from the Divine Office | 4. Night Prayer | 5. The Proper Seasons and the Proper of Saints | 6. Prayer During the Day and the Office of Readings | 7. Learning to Pray the Psalms | 8. The Psalms: Prayer of Israel and Prayer of the Church | 9. Christ in the Psalms | 10. The Gifts of the Divine Office.