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THE SEXY DEXY.
#CINatBAL on CBS/Paramount+
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Friends, one of the spiritual challenges that artificial intelligence poses is that while we are becoming great at assembling data, we are losing some of our power of understanding—of seeing patterns and connections.
This undermines our humanity, which is tied directly to our ability to find meaning and purpose through those patterns.
While AI can and will do many things, it cannot give us this power.
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Catholic orthodoxy is consistent with vigorous opposition to the death penalty. It is NOT consistent with holding the death penalty to be intrinsically contrary to natural law or the Gospel. I set out some of the overwhelming evidence in this 2018 article: catholicworldreport.com/2018…
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He is correct.
Catholic orthodoxy is consistent with vigorous opposition to the death penalty. It is NOT consistent with holding the death penalty to be intrinsically contrary to natural law or the Gospel. I set out some of the overwhelming evidence in this 2018 article: catholicworldreport.com/2018…
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Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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There exists a martyrdom of those who offer their lives in a single moment, and the more hidden martyrdom of those who give their lives day after day. This is exactly what all Christians are called to do: to give our lives with love, every day.
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Friends, I’m delighted to say for the first time: Blessed Fulton Sheen, pray for us!
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BREAKING: Another Princeton philosopher has announced his conversion to Catholicism as a result of studying miracles.
Noah McKay joins Joe Schmid as the second philosopher to convert at the prestigious university.
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Nichols's Catholic conversion happened after séances she held in 1856 in which she was shocked to experience St. Ignatius Loyola & other long-dead Jesuits scold her & communicate Catholic theological principles to her. She & her husband began studying with Jesuits near to their Ohio utopian community & sacramentally entered the Church with their daughter a few months later.
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The Blessed Virgin Mary, assumed into the glory of heaven, is a sign of hope and consolation for the entire People of God. For this reason, I wish to invoke her maternal intercession today on behalf of those communities that are in particular need of consolation and of renewed hope. My thoughts go out to our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land, which is also, par excellence, the Land of Mary. My thoughts also go out to the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, both of whom are united by their filial devotion to the Holy Mother of God, and to Christians who suffer discrimination or even persecution.
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We all know that during the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, there was a solar eclipse. I tracked the eclipse and found that it occurred in the third month of the year 33, when Jesus was 33 years old. The eclipse was visible from the South Pole in the zodiac constellation of Pisces, the Fish, a symbol of Jesus Christ, announcing the beginning of the Age of Pisces and the rise of Christianity. I tracked the date and recorded the eclipse shown on the left.
Exactly 2,000 years later, in the third month of the year 2033, there will be another solar eclipse. This time, it will be visible from the North Pole at the end of the zodiac constellation of Pisces, announcing the end of the Age of Pisces.
What is particularly interesting is that the Morning Star, the planet Venus, is visible during both solar eclipses, exactly 2,000 years apart and in the same month. To make it even more intriguing, the eclipses are visible from opposite ends of the planet, the South and the North, representing the masculine and the feminine, the life force and the spirit!
Make of this what you will, but the signs are in the stars.
Tomorrow, there will be a total solar eclipse in Leo, visible from Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and Western Europe.
Interestingly, the war with Iran began just a few days before the Blood Moon (Lunar Eclipse) in March, which also occurred in Leo. The U.S.–Israeli operation against Iran is called “Roaring Lion,” and now, tomorrow, we are closing the cycle with the occultation of the Sun in Leo.
Spain is also central to this conflict, so what do the elites—or the universe—have planned for tomorrow? The signs are in the stars. In my opinion, the tides will change, and the conflict will intensify in the coming months.