Claire Giangrave
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6 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 9 Jul
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An encyclical is essentially the highest form of magisterial document that a pope can issue.
It has complete papal authority, and it's used by popes when they really want to send a strong message across.
It used to be addressed only to Catholics, but now they tend to be addressed to all people of goodwill.
So it's really a podium for the pope to speak to the world.
So the main takeaway is definitely the idea of trying to offer what the church in its thousand-year-old history has figured out to be what it means to be human.
It's presenting all of these things that the church believes make human beings human and why we should treasure that, especially in a time where things are becoming more abstract and technological and certain philosophies in Silicon Valley want to sell us a world that is without pain, without death, without disability or without any sort of limitation.
And the Pope is trying to send a message to say, hey, actually, it's our limitation.
It's our humanity that make us human.
And you shouldn't buy anything that wants to make a future that is not human.
And he uses that in a lot of different sections, from war and peace to how should tech relate to moral issues.
And it offers this knowledge that the Catholic Church, just like many religions have, not just for tech execs, but anyone who wants to have a say in the future of this technology.
Yeah, it's interesting, right?
But he sort of had been hinting at this straight off the bat when he was elected.
He chose the name Leo XIV to honor his predecessor, Leo XIII, who lived at the height of the Industrial Revolution.
And that pope had written an encyclical as well.
It was called Rerum Novarum, a Latin word which essentially means, on new things, right?
And it wanted to address the tensions and the problems that had to do with the Industrial Revolution at that time.
And it offered the idea that the Catholic Church supports rights of workers and paid time off and the minimum wage and the responsibility of capitalist systems toward workers and regular people.
And...
By choosing that name, Leo was saying that he thinks that the church and maybe the world needs those kinds of reflections once more as we face a new industrial revolution.
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