The documents themselves

Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Chapter 4 sets out the permanent principles (§160): human dignity, common good, subsidiarity, solidarity.

Pope Francis. Addresses AI directly: disinformation, discrimination, surveillance, digital exclusion, education, and international law.

Pope Francis, encyclical on the human and divine love of the Heart of Jesus Christ. Theological grounding for why technology must serve the human heart.

Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and Dicastery for Culture and Education. The Church's most systematic treatment of AI: 118 paragraphs on the relationship between artificial and human intelligence.

Pope Leo XIV, apostolic exhortation on love for the poor, begun by Francis and made his own. Renews the preferential option for the poor.

Pope Leo XIV, first encyclical, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence. It addresses truth, work, freedom, and the reduction of persons to data. Signed on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum.

Signed February 28, 2020 by the Pontifical Academy for Life, Microsoft, IBM, FAO, and the Italian Minister for Technological Innovation.

Later endorsed by Jewish and Islamic religious leaders (2023) and representatives of the world's religions (2024).

News, events, and the ongoing work of the RenAIssance Foundation.

The Society's four priorities, discerned over two years and confirmed by Pope Francis. They are the Spiritual Exercises and discernment, the poor and outcast, young people, and our common home.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' guide to the encyclicals and documents from Rerum Novarum onward.