Amid anxious predictions of an AI future, it is a critical time for us to think carefully about the value and dignity of human work. Theologian Michael...
Science and technology
Find U.S. Catholic articles on science, technology, and ethics—insights and reflections for navigating faith in a rapidly changing world.
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics around the country. We also invite...
As a venture capitalist who has spent more than two decades investing in emerging innovations like quantum computing and artificial intelligence, the recently...
I came in on my knees,” Marshall McLuhan wrote of his conversion to Catholicism. “That is the only way in.” The celebrated 20th-century media theorist was a...
You’ve seen them before. Over-saturated, cartoony, carnival-like advertisements. Blocky letters. Inexplicably mixed fonts. Generic, clip-art flourishes...
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, was released on May 25, 10 days after its signing. The date of the signing was significant, taking place...
For many people who use artificial intelligence, it is easy to ignore the reality of where this technology physically lives: data centers. These massive...
The word sabotage—from the French saboter, “to bungle, wreck, or willfully disrupt”—originally referred to a 19th-century labor tactic. French textile workers...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics around the country. We also invite...
I’m playing the 2018 city-building game Frostpunk, and I have a decision to make. Frostpunk casts the player as the leader of an isolated city in an alternate...
