The pope signed \u2018Magnifica Humanitas\u2019 (\u201cMagnificent Humanity\u201d) on May 15, the 135th anniversary of the publication of the landmark social encyclical \u2018Rerum Novarum.\u2019<\/p>\n
The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Leo XIV\u2019s first encyclical will be published on May 25, with the title Magnifica Humanitas.<\/p>\n
Pope Leo will speak at a presentation for the release of the social encyclical \u2014 a papal letter to the Church \u2014 at 11:30 a.m. Rome time on May 25, in the Vatican\u02bcs Synod Hall.<\/p>\n
The Vatican also confirmed that the full title of the encyclical is Magnifica Humanitas: On the Protection of Human Dignity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Magnifica Humanitas is Latin for \u201cMagnificent Humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leo signed the letter, which is expected to provide moral guidance on the digital revolution and emerging technologies such as AI, on May 15.<\/p>\n
The speakers at the encyclical\u02bcs presentation will be: Cardinal V\u00edctor Manuel Fern\u00e1ndez, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith; Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, prefect of the Dicastery for Integral Human Development; Anna Rowlands, professor of ethics and political theology at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom; Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic USA; and L\u00e9ocadie Lushombo, it, professor of theological ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University in Berkeley, California.<\/p>\n
Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin will offer concluding remarks.<\/p>\n
May 15 marked the 135th anniversary of the publication of Pope Leo XIII\u2019s 1891 encyclical on capital and labor, Rerum Novarum, \u201cOf New Things\u201d \u2014 the first in a long line of social encyclicals produced in the modern era of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n
Pope Leo XIV indicated at the beginning of his pontificate that he intended to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor Leo XIII by responding to today\u02bcs Industrial Revolution: \u201cdevelopments in the field of artificial intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Addressing the College of Cardinals on May 10, 2025, the new pope said he chose to take the name Leo XIV for various reasons, \u201cbut mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our own day,\u201d he continued, \u201cthe Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor.\u201d<\/p>\n
This article was originally published by EWTN News English.<\/p>\n