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...
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 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...
Data centers are causing controversy across America and around the world. In early December 2025, my county council in Indiana voted on a rezoning that would...
Artificial intelligence has been a literary trope since antiquity. Early instances of robots in stories include myths about self-operating tools or statues...
In 2024, the apologetics organization Catholic Answers launched a chatbot, affectionately called Father Justin, with the purpose of providing “sound answers to...
Pope Francis, in Amoris Laetitia (On Love in the Family), spoke of marriage as an encounter, a union, and a sacrament in which Christ himself meets the couple...
Across the plateaus, south of the county seat, a monster power shovel the height of a 20-story building loomed on the horizon. Its name was the Silver Spade...
