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"Taking the name Leo tells us that he is looking to Catholic social teaching to combat the effort to dehumanize people, consumerism, the artificial intelligence and transhumanism religion that is forming in silicone valley. The periphery of Christianity turned out to be Europe and America."
"Pope Leo XIV revealed in his first interview since being elected pontiff that it's going to be 'very difficult to discover the presence of God' in artificial intelligence (AI), noting that he recently refused a proposal to create an avatar of himself."
"Someone made /r/PopeLeoXIV immediately after the announcement. He's also mod of an AI Feet Porn sub. Unreal lmao. Does this say anything profound about the time we're living in? Or is it just the inevitability of the coomer on reddit."
"Pope Leo XIV has told the Vatican's first Mass for Catholic social media influencers that human dignity needs to be protected online as the world faces the 'challenge' of artificial intelligence (AI)."
"Virgo popes in the past (eg. Julius III, Paul V, and Gregory XVI) have all been *extremely* stability focused—which, when combined with prosociality, pleasantly leads to reverence of visual pomp. In the coming decades, we can expect a strong defence of papal power, lavish spending on the arts (parti"