Professor of Historical Theology - Villanova University || Loyola Blakefield (RDR) || Villanova U || University of Chicago Div||
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May 25
There’s a longer conversation to be had here to clarify terms like “intelligence” and “consciousness”…not sure Leo’s account of intelligence as embodied, storied, and felt wouldn’t fit better under “consciousness,” But that’s a convo for a different day.
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Kevin Hughes retweeted
May 25
"Calling for prudence, rigorous evaluation and even, at times, a slower pace in adopting AI does not mean opposing progress; instead, it is an exercise of responsible care for the human family." #magnificahumanitas
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May 25
Tell me you didn’t read it without telling me you didn’t read it.
May 25
So the Pope’s response to AI is a centralized global authority that will define the correct doctrine of the thinking machine and guard against heresies. It shouldn’t come as a surprise
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Kevin Hughes retweeted
May 25
We must, then, avoid the “Babel syndrome,” namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance. This is the risk of dehumanization: building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means.
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May 24
Umm….yes. Yes they do.
May 22
Unbridled.
Implementation..
eclipse..
grandeur…
technological….
anthropological… encyclical?????
Why don’t you speak in plain English so people can understand. You are from AMERICA after all. And you’re supposed to be speaking to the world.. does everybody in the world know what all of those words mean?
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Kevin Hughes retweeted
May 22
As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.
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May 14
🙄. 1. We did not initiate a preemptive strike and a war of choice in WW2.
2. This gives no sense of how any conflict between faith and the « obligation to national security is adjudicated. » its gestural.
May 14
🚨 WOW! Sec. Marco Rubio gives the perfect response to Pope Leo on the Iran war
"What was the diplomatic solution for an Adolf Hitler?"
"There was none."
"Unfortunately, it led to war."
"We are obviously guided by our faith and we're instructed by our faith. That's the compass by which we live our lives."
"We also have an obligation to the national security of our country, and that has to be taken into account."
"That's our primary job is to keep Americans safe. And that's why we're involved in Iran. That's why we're involved in anything we do around the world."
Marco is so good 🇺🇸
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May 14
3. The administration fails to give evidence for the claim that this war is keeping Americans safe. In fact, the only claim they’ve made is that the nuclear threat was « totally obliterated ». Instead, you get an empty rhetorical question. « Do you want Iran to have a nuke? »
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Apr 19
Is somebody going to tell Primrose that the pope was quoting scripture? 
On Palm Sunday 2026, Pope Leo XIV quoted Isaiah 1:15, stating, "Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood". Primrose, check your Bible. It’s in there!
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Apr 19
This is going to be a heck of an encyclical! Let’s get ready, folks….we’ve got work to do.
Apr 17
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
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Kevin Hughes retweeted
Apr 19
If the two disciples of Emmaus recognize Jesus when He breaks the bread for them, we too should recognize Him in this way. Not just in the Eucharist, but wherever there is a life that becomes broken bread, wherever someone makes a compassionate gift of themselves, like He did. With the grace of the Risen Christ, we can become this broken bread that transforms reality. #GospelOfTheDay (Lk 24:13–35) #ApostolicJourney #Angola
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Apr 17
The Catholic University can form pioneers of a new humanism in the context of the digital revolution. This is a service to the truth and to all humanity. Without this demanding educational effort, passive adaptation to dominant paradigms will be mistaken for competence, and the loss of freedom for progress. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon
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Apr 19
As if that was “the media narrative” and not the Vice President himself who decided to tell the Pope that he shouldn’t be talking theology.
I am grateful to Pope Leo for saying this. While the media narrative constantly gins up conflict–and yes, real disagreements have happened and will happen–the reality is often much more complicated.
Pope Leo preaches the gospel, as he should, and that will inevitably mean he offers his opinions on the moral issues of the day. The President–and the entire administration–work to apply those moral principles in a messy world.
He will be in our prayers, and I hope that we'll be in his.
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Kevin Hughes retweeted
Apr 17
Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded.
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Kevin Hughes retweeted
Jan 22
May you be cloaked in the light & love of God’s eternal embrace, my dear friend & giant of Vatican reporting, John L. Allen Jr. who passed away today in Rome.🙏🏻
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7 Nov 2025
Holy Drunk Uncle, Batman!
Does uncle Ted really have to come to Thanksgiving this year?
7 Nov 2025
Cruz: The 2 frontrunners for the Democratic nomination in 2028 are AOC and Mamdani. Now, he's not even eligible, but what do they care? Law doesn't mean anything to them.
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31 Oct 2025
I’ve been thinking recently that it’s a problem that many people’s primary sense of religious identity comes from social media, and their parish experience is measured against that standard. It’s backward and deeply problematic in all directions.
31 Oct 2025
In recent years, many young people have approached the faith through social media, successful programs and popular online Christian witnesses. The danger is that a faith discovered online is limited to individual experiences, which may be intellectually and emotionally reassuring, but never “embodied.” Such experiences remain “disembodied,” detached from the “ecclesial body.”
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27 Oct 2025
"I’m a Republican. The House Speaker is a Republican. Adelita Grijalva is a Democrat. But what is right is right, and what the Republican House Speaker is doing to Democrat Adelita Grijalva is wrong. Period."
Thank you @RepMoBrooks!
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Kevin Hughes retweeted
22 Oct 2025
That’s right. He isn’t destroying the White House. He is just damaging it.
It is the Constitution that he is destroying.
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