#anna rowlands

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[T]he desire for domination, what Saint Augustine called the libido dominandi, might be lauded by the world as strength, but it is never a Christian virtue. Instead, we are called to a civilization of love. Pope Leo says this means: deescalating conflict by disarming our words, focusing on justice as the basis for peace, adopting the perspective of the victims, cultivating a healthy (not a false) realism, reviving dialogue and multilateralism, and praying.

Anna Rowlands, in her speech for the press release concerning Magnifica humanitas

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[Magnifica humanitas] brings the vision of the Gospel to bear on the cultures of A.I. It warns of a growing culture of power that is reshaping work, families, education, and political life. It calls us to transform modes of power that dominate into forms of shared power, and to measure technological developments by their contributions to true social and ethical process. Eleven years ago, Laudato si' called us to an urgent care for the earth and for the poorest, warning of a technocratic paradigm that measures human worth by utility. Today, Pope Leo shows that to overcome this technocratic paradigm requires us now to just as urgently safeguard "the human." An integral ecology requires an integral humanism centered on Jesus Christ. This appeal is no platitude; no idea is more central to modern society than that of the free human being.

Anna Rowlands, in her speech for the press release concerning Magnifica humanitas

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[H]umanity's Author, Architect, and sole Savior is the Trinitarian God in whom we place our trust.

Anna Rowlands, in her speech for the press release concerning Magnifica humanitas