Cloud Computing: The Perils of Redefining God as a Celestial Microchip
As AI advances ever further with staggering speed, will such developments one day soon allow us to peer directly into the mind of God?
Feasts of the Saints: The Magical Multiplication of Food at Christmas
Did a Jesuit priest really recreate the Feeding of the Five Thousand in a Mexican rubbish dump on Christmas Day 1972? Or are such “Miracles of Abundance” better understood as providing the faithful with food for thought in purely symbolic terms?
Musk’s AI Invents New Work for Idle Hands to Do
The true problems of looming mass AI-facilitated unemployment may not be financial and practical but psychological and spiritual.
100% Proof Spirits? G.K. Chesterton and Belief in Ghosts
The fact that seasonal stories of spooks and specters are now spoken of in terms of “proof” and “evidence,” not simple “belief” and “faith,” is symptomatic of a wider spiritual malaise in our society—one first spotted by G.K. Chesterton over a century ago.
Britain Is No Longer a Christian Country Because Its Priests Are No Longer Christian
Recent news that a majority of Anglican priests no longer believe Great Britain to be a Christian country may be a case of self-fulfilling prophecy. Their Catholic counterparts should avoid making the same progressive-pandering mistakes they have.
The Mother Church: Turning God Trans
Current rumblings about the introduction of deaconesses into the Catholic faith as a potential prelude to the ordination of female priests are as nothing compared to the latest gender-crazy news from the Church of England.
St. Elsewhere: Italy’s New Religion of the Internet
A new online Italian pseudo-religion reveals that the web itself has become a kind of vehicle for worshiping the modern-day cult of the sacred self.