Pope Leo’s Encyclical, MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. […]
Podcast: Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons
- Wisdom Is Seeking You Out November 6, 2026Friends, our first reading this Sunday from the book of Wisdom begins, “Resplendent and unfading is wisdom, and she is readily perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her.” The Bible is preoccupied with the search for wisdom because Jesus is the Wisdom of God made flesh. But to get […]Bishop Robert Barron
- Do You Want to Be a Saint? October 29, 2026Friends, All Saints Day falls on a Sunday this year, so the Church can give special attention to this important solemnity. Léon Bloy famously said that there is only one real sadness in life: not to be a saint. Sainthood is the ordinary goal of Christian life; it’s what the whole spiritual life is about. […]Bishop Robert Barron
- With All Your Heart, Soul, and Mind October 22, 2026Friends, our Gospel this Sunday is from the twenty-second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus has been doing battle with the scribes and Pharisees, and this passage brings that great argument to a conclusion in an interesting way. One of the teachers of the law, making an old move in rabbinic circles, tests him: “Teacher, […]Bishop Robert Barron