f Catholic social thought (CST) is to be an instrument of evangelization, as the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, citing Centesimus Annus, 54 says, then surely it must place “the human person and society in relationship with the light of the Gospel.” This cannot be done without reference to man’s sinful nature. Coherent notions of dignity, justice, social concerns, and all the rest of it cannot be articulated rightly and realistically without contending with who we are as humans.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas is billed as the “AI encyclical” but it is much more than that.
Read the full essay at Providence Magazine.