Leo the XIV wrote a big letter about a hyperobject. Many thoughts and debates are triggered. Today we’ll look at what the hell an encyclical is, the Vatican's decade-long conversation with Silicon Valley about coding morally-sound AI, and the broken and laundered echoes of Liberation Theology in Leo’s text.
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<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html">Rerum Novarum, Leo XIII, May 15 1891</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/01/catholic-church-wealth-power">Catholic Church largest non-governmental landowner</a>
<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html">Magnifica Humanitas full text</a>
<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html">Paragraph 177: memory of past complicity in slavery</a>
<a href="https://www.cbpai.org/blog-1/thiels-framing-of-proponents-of-an-ai-treaty-as-antichrist-collides-with-60-years-of-catholic-doctrine">Thiel’s Antichrist Framing Collides with Church Doctrine</a>
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/silicon-valley-catholicism-ai-leo/686948/">Why Silicon Valley is Turning to The Catholic Church</a>
<a href="https://www.orbisbooks.com/a-theology-of-liberation.html">Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation (1971/1973)</a>
<a href="https://www.celam.org/documentos/Documento_de_Medellin.pdf">Medellín Conference 1968, CELAM documents</a>
<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Camilo-Torres">Camilo Torres Restrepo, ELN Colombia</a>
<a href="https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19840806_theology-liberation_en.html">Ratzinger CDF investigation of Gutiérrez, 1984</a>
<a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-reason/2026/05/25/a-capitalist-priest-reads-magnifica-humanitas/">James Martin SJ, "A capitalist priest reads Magnifica Humanitas," America Magazine</a>
<a href="https://www.wordonfire.org/">Word on Fire publishing Magnifica Humanitas in hardcopy</a>
<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brief-us-v-liberation-theology-part-1/id1515827446?i=1000734606194">Brief: US v. Liberation Theology (Part 1) — November 1, 2025</a>
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3L3W0GnBDvJSsDOtz0VHgW">Bonus: US v. Liberation Theology (Part 2) — November 3, 2025</a>
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