Magnifica Humanitas
This guide is an invitation to read and discuss Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.
While designed to encourage book clubs and discussion groups, the guide can also be used for individual reflection and self-directed reading.
-
-
The res novae of our time
The future is not something that happens to us; it is something we must intentionally shape together.
The future is not something that happens to us; it is something we must intentionally shape together.
-
Two biblical images
The future becomes less human whenever efficiency, control, and uniformity replace relationship, participation, and care.
The future becomes less human whenever efficiency, control, and uniformity replace relationship, participation, and care.
-
Building for the common good
Human flourishing depends upon relationships of mutual care, shared responsibility, and a commitment to something larger than ourselves.
Human flourishing depends upon relationships of mutual care, shared responsibility, and a commitment to something larger than ourselves.
-
Remaining human
The future remains human when the needs of the vulnerable are placed at the center of our common life.
The future remains human when the needs of the vulnerable are placed at the center of our common life.
-
-
-
A church journeying through human history
We break things down into simple, manageable parts so you never feel overwhelmed.
We break things down into simple, manageable parts so you never feel overwhelmed.
-
The development of social doctrine from Leo XIII to present
We break things down into simple, manageable parts so you never feel overwhelmed.
We break things down into simple, manageable parts so you never feel overwhelmed.
-
Meet Your book guides
We believe that reading together is a foundational practice of civic and community life—a way of bringing ideas into conversation with lived experience, collective wisdom, and the realities of the present moment.
Hailey Allen is the founder of Mother Philosophy, a project devoted to cultivating thoughtful conversations about the questions shaping our common life.
