His Eminence Cardinal Timothy Dolan

And she said to me, actually, you were named after your grandpa.

And my dad was sitting there reading the paper and we're talking about his dad.

And when my mom said you were named after your grandpa, my dad said, and he ain't no saint.

So I learned something from that.

Actually, more essential than ever.

There's a bit of a tendency to say as technology and science advance, the necessity and role of faith diminishes.

I think the opposite is true, as the more we see these miracles of science and technology, I hope the more we're moved to praise the God who gave them to us.

And faith also teaches us that

that everything, almost everything in life is morally neutral.

The morality comes in how we use it.

Let's take an example of like the splitting of the atom.

All right, that's morally neutral.

That can be used for good in radiation to destroy a tumor.

That can be used for something not so good to destroy human life in nuclear warfare.

That applies to technology.

Pope Leo, by the way, it's very clear that he is fascinated with technology, especially AI, and is frequently speaking about it

as not only its threats to human dignity, but also the possibility to enhance human dignity.

There it is again.

The morality, the ethical characterization of it comes in how we use it.

That's true of technology.