Father Paolo Benanti

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On with Kara Swisher · The Vatican Takes On AI · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

When the first Christian people arise, they have to confront with a really well-shaped form of power that was the Roman Empire and the other country.

It's interesting that Christians, in a different way from other religions, don't try to found their own regulation on God.

But they found no reason.

Why?

Because if we believe as a Christian that there is a God that make us, everything that he made in us is not against his will.

And so everything that is reasonable is according in some way with God's will.

And that produced, during this 20th century of history, a lot of different reflections.

Don't forget, for example, that one of my friars, 13th century, the name was Raimondo Lull, produced a book, the name was The Arts Magna, in which he started to think, well, can we say all the truth on God with that simple permutation of words?

And you have these double-wheel things with a lot of words that are turning on.

And a couple of centuries later, Leibniz looked at that and said, wow, that is fantastic.

Let's move to logic.

And when you are typing something on a computer today, you are using logic that is driven by Leibniz, that is founded on a Franciscan reflection.

Or you can have things like the genetic studies.

Mandel, he was a monk.

So this idea that if the nature is a gift of God, you can investigate, you can acquire it without fear, is something that belongs at least to some tradition inside the church.

That was something that probably find the most powerful way with secularism, you know, in which they someone start to say, well, you belong to a specific place that is the sacristy of the church.

So stay there.

Don't go around like, you know, like a wild beast in the zoo.

If I can use this, these images.

But now let me push a little bit back on what does it mean to be a member of the church.

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