Artificial Intelligence (AI) has captured the attention of a wide variety of individuals and groups: junior programmers seeking help with coding, university administrators concerned about academic dishonesty, and healthcare professionals seeking tools for analyzing patient data. Even Pope Leo XIV has raised concerns about AI’s implications. Responding to this cultural moment, the Institute for Human […]
By Lucia A. Silecchia The petals were dusty yellow and flecked with white. They emerged with timid strength from a nearly invisible crack in the blacktop of a nondescript driveway. In the midst of the dark pavement, a spunky petunia bloomed. The contrast between the delicate bright beauty of the flower and the cold ugliness […]
By IHE Scholar Thomas Holman Pope Saint John Paul II’s fascination with the human person began early in his life. From the beginning of his priestly ministry through the end of his storied pontificate, the relationality of the human person remained a central theme. His dogged struggles against the evils of the various forms of […]
By IHE Scholar Lucia Silecchia Many of my deepest childhood memories are the timeless ones about family traditions, school events, summer vacations, late 1970s fashions, my cat, and adventures with friends. Along with these, I remember the significant place of the American Bicentennial in my earliest memories. I remember our family mailbox filled with literature from […]
By IHE Graduate Scholar Molly Egilsrud, MA, MPhil Each June, the Church draws our attention and devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This year, there is an added poignancy: Pope Francis’s October encyclical Dilexit Nos on this devotion proved to be the final teaching of his pontificate. The late Pontiff encouraged the Church to […]
By Lucia A. Silecchia “White smoke” was all that my friend’s text said. That was, of course, all that I needed to hear to know that the quiet afternoon I had planned in my office at Catholic University would no longer be so quiet. That text was followed by an invitation to everyone on campus to […]
By IHE Graduate Scholar Michael J. Bors “When an adventurer carries his gods with him into a remote and savage country, the colony he founds will, from the beginning, have graces, traditions, riches of the mind and spirit.” So wrote Willa Cather in Shadows on the Rock, her tale of early French-Catholic settlers in Québec. […]
By Lucia A. Silecchia Years ago, I read reports about a study positing that the American news media can bebiased toward reporting bad or negative news. What saddened me was the report’sassertion that negative articles are the ones most sought out by the public as reports ofbad news garner more clicks and public attention. Could […]
By MAHR student Veronica Smaldone Jakub Grygiel, professor in the Department of Politics at Catholic University, visited theMaster’s in Human Rights students in their Capstone course to share his perspective as an experton the history of American foreign policy and a former employee of the U.S. State Department. Dr. Grygiel explained that in the last […]
By IHE Graduate Scholar Marcela Duque When Mother Teresa heard the words of Christ on the cross — “I thirst” — she found both her vocation to serve Christ “among the poorest of the poor” and the spirituality that would shape the vocation of those who joined her as Missionaries of Charity. She heard in […]
