A Harvard Business Review survey found that 'therapy and companionship' is the number one use case of generative AI for the second year running. The question is not whether AI chatbots can improve mood — they sometimes can — but whether that help is the same as therapy, and what we lose when we stop asking the difference. A Catholic Christian anthropology has something precise to say about that gap.
Pope Leo XIV's call for colleges and universities to become genuine places of encounter reframes the purpose of higher education around a profound anthropological claim: that the human person is made for truth. When institutions take that claim seriously, the results extend well beyond academic achievement into the territory of psychological resilience, moral coherence, and lasting wellbeing.
Government informants now record Catholic homilies in Nicaraguan churches, listening for any deviation from pre-approved scripts. The Ortega-Murillo regime's precision targeting of religious practice reveals something specific about what faith communities carry that authoritarian systems cannot afford to leave intact.
A Harvard Business Review survey found that 'therapy and companionship' is the number one use case of generative AI for the second year running. The question is not whether AI chatbots can improve mood — they sometimes can — but whether that help is the same as therapy, and what we lose when we stop asking the difference. A Catholic Christian anthropology has something precise to say about that gap.
Pope Leo XIV's call for colleges and universities to become genuine places of encounter reframes the purpose of higher education around a profound anthropological claim: that the human person is made for truth. When institutions take that claim seriously, the results extend well beyond academic achievement into the territory of psychological resilience, moral coherence, and lasting wellbeing.