The Season of Creation, Magnifica Humanitas Introduction, and an interview with Steve Schneck

Heidi, Daniel, and David dive in to the new papal encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, for a season-long exploration of its themes and meanings. They also catch up on their summer activities, and ponder what it means to journey through the Season of Creation during a time of increasing climate peril. Then Heidi interviews Steve Schneck, president of Catholics for the Future.

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SEGMENT 1 - The Season of Creation

Elon Musk tweet

Heidi mention of Italian document

Patriarch Bartholomew, the “Green Patriarch”

Social Sin

Daniel’s NCR column on the centrality of water in the Season of Creation

St. Francis of Assisi - Canticle of the Creatures

Heidi’s article on “The Sheep Detectives”

SEGMENT 2 - Magnifica Humanitas (Introduction, Paragraphs 1-16)

Magnifica Humanitas, Introduction

The Tower of Babel and the Book of Nehemiah

Para. 13 - We all have our sections of the wall to mend

Heidi’s recent piece on Catholic Social Teaching

“Hugging Face” incident

Para. 9 - Channeling Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI - “Technology has the power to heal… or to exclude…”

Picture of Pope Benedict’s first tweet

David’s recent essay on AI for The Christian Century

David’s recent essay on AI in the classroom