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Pope Leo XIV, ahead of his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, is expected to add an AI-focused dimension to Catholic social teaching, offering moral guidance on artificial intelligence and digital transformation while stressing human dignity and transcendence; scholars frame this as a modern continuation of Rerum Novarum, with the Pope urging Catholic students in Africa to become pioneers of a new humanism in the digital age.
Pope Francis' recent visit to Hungary was interpreted through a sociopolitical lens, with media accounts framing the visit according to their own ideological agendas, distorting his engagement with Hungary's political project and Catholic social teaching in the process. The Pope's nuanced social vision doesn't fit neatly anywhere on the secular political spectrum, but he celebrated the good he saw and challenged what he sees as inconsistencies with the Gospel. The false binaries within which members of the media all too often attempt to force him eliminate any space for overlap and give the impression that tradition is opposed to welcome, family values run contrary to the social gospel, and so on.