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‘A genius, God’s architect’: Pope Leo to visit Spain next week for Antoni Gaudi’s death centenary

Pope Leo XIV will mark the centenary of Antoni Gaudí’s death with a mass at Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia as the architect’s path to sainthood advances in the Vatican

Did Pope use AI to write his anti-AI encyclical? The internet is debating

Pope Leo XIV’s first major encyclical urges governments to slow down artificial intelligence development, warning of misinformation, conflict and job disruption. But the internet is now focused on a different question altogether: was the Vatican’s anti-AI document itself partially written using AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT?

Watch: Pope Leo XIV checks out Ferrari's controversial new 'Luce' EV

At his summer residence near Rome, Pope Leo XIV examined Ferrari’s first fully electric car, the Luce, as the automaker seeks validation amid criticism over the controversial EV’s design and weak investor response

Pope Leo’s AI warning: Is humanity building a modern Tower of Babel?

Pope Leo XIV has issued a sweeping warning on artificial intelligence, comparing unchecked AI development to the Biblical Tower of Babel, a biblical story (Genesis 11:1-9) that explains how the world became divided into different languages and cultures

Anthropic co-founder joins Pope Leo to warn against leaving AI in Big Tech’s hands

At a rare Vatican gathering on artificial intelligence, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah warned that AI’s rapid rise could trigger mass job losses and deepen global inequality if left unchecked. Standing alongside Pope Leo, he urged governments, faith leaders and civil society to play a greater role in shaping the technology’s future.

Pope Leo XIV apologises for Vatican’s historic role in legitimising slavery

Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimising slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.”

Pope Leo urges world to 'slow down' on AI in fervent first manifesto

The first US pope called for ownership of AI data not to be left solely in private hands, for policy-makers to protect the rights of workers and keep children safe from the technology, and urged the cooling of competition between AI companies.

From religion to diplomatic row: Pope Leo, US's Rubio prepare for the Vatican meet

While speaking to the reporters on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he has 'a lot to talk about' with Pope Leo XIV as the American diplomat prepares for his trip to the Vatican on Thursday

Rubio to visit Vatican and Rome amid tensions after Trump-Pope clash

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to visit Rome and the Vatican later this week, in a trip that comes amid strained relations between Washington and the Catholic leadership.

Pope Leo appoints former undocumented immigrant as US Bishop

Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, aged 55, who fled El Salvador in a car trunk in 1990, takes the helm of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston