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Pope urges humanity to build civilization of love in digital world

Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” the day after Pentecost. In the 82-page document, the pope looked at the consequences of the digital revolution in the 21st-century and safeguarding “the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.”

• Pope Leo XIV to publish encyclical on artificial intelligence May 25

  By COURTNEY MARES, OSV News
  Published May 18, 2026

  Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” will be published May 25, addressing artificial intelligence and the protection of human dignity, the Vatican has announced.

• ‘Peace be with you all’: Pope Leo’s first words were a roadmap for his first year

  

  By COURTNEY MARES, OSV News
  Published May 8, 2026

  When Robert Francis Prevost stepped onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica one year ago, he carried with him a piece of paper on which he had written the first words he would utter as pope . His first speech was a preview of what was to come.

• ‘We can always begin anew’: Pope Leo leads peace meeting in Cameroon’s conflict zone

  

  By COURTNEY MARES, OSV News
  Published April 16, 2026

  Pope Leo led a historic peace meeting on April 16 in Cameroon’s northwest city of Bamenda, a region marred by years of separatist violence. “This is the moment to change, to transform the story of this country,” the pope said.