“We need to recognise how social networks, on the one hand, help us to better connect, rediscover, and assist one another, but on the other, lend themselves to the manipulation of personal data, aimed at obtaining political or economic advantages, without due respect for the person and his or her rights.”
Message of Pope Francis for the 53rd World Communications Day.
With technology continuing to advance at a rapid rate, new media forms are constantly being created and utilised. Below are links and resources concerning new media forms not covered in the other pages in this section, such as artificial intelligence, deepfake technology and apps. New technologies are constantly emerging, and this page will seek to cover these media forms as they start to become prevalent and popular in society.
- ‘Embracing artificial intelligence through faith’ (NCE, The Bridge, 2024)
- ‘Using apps to grow in faith’ (NCE, The Bridge, 2024)
- Artificial Intelligence and Peace (Justice, Ecology and Peace Office, 2024)
- AI and Personhood (The Episcopal Podcast, 2023)
- AI and Personhood Pt 2 (The Episcopal Podcast, 2024)
- The AI revolution: can the Gospel speak to artificial intelligence? (Archdiocese of Melbourne, 2024)
- Catholic Social Teaching on Emerging Technologies (Justice and Peace Office, Archdiocese of Sydney)
- Antiqua et Nova: Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence (Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Dicastery for Culture and Education, 2025)
- Artificial Intelligence and the Wisdom of the Heart: Towards a Fully Human Communication (Message of Pope Francis for the 58th World Day of Social Communications, 2024)
- Pontifical Academy for Life: Yes to artificial intelligence, but with ethics (Vatican News, 2020)
- Finding God in all apps (America Magazine, 2021)
- Awesome Catholic Apps (Blessed is She, 2018)
- Deepfakes Create Many Moral Messes (Fr Matthew Schneider, Patheos, 2020)
- Artificial Intelligence and the Temptation of Idolatry (Word on Fire, 2023)
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