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How does the Church stay mission-centred in a machine-centred world? That question preoccupies Kim Daniels, Director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, who is also the coordinator of the Synod study group tasked by Pope Francis to report on how the Church is meeting people online.

'It's about more than just using tools,' Kim tells Geraldine, 'it's about being present and building relationships in the digital environment.'

It's a message she's taking back to the new pope, Leo XIV, as he drafts his first social encyclical amid an AI revolution.

Links:

• Austen Ivereigh's article, 'Not for likes but for love...' in The Tablet
• Christopher White's book, Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy, published by Loyola Press, also available in Australia through Garratt Publishing
• Catch up on presentations by Hélder Câmara lecturers Dr Nora Nonterah from Ghana and Cardinal Stephen Chow SJ from Hong Kong during their visits to Australia in September.

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