Balthasar and the Machine

By |2025-10-05T19:33:15-05:00October 5th, 2025|Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Catholicism, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Nature of Man, New Polity, Technology|

The Vatican has issued an official document on AI. The Church is willing, in the face of an aggressively rising transhumanistic tide, to state the obvious: machines do not—and cannot—do what humans do or be who humans are. There are many—myself included—who are tempted to give a knee-jerk reaction, one that goes something like this: [...]