Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centur

Leo and 33-year-old atheist tech leader Christopher Olah made an unlikely duo in championing a partnership between the Catholic Church and the tech industry to develop safeguards for the precarious development of AI.

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical calls for tougher AI rules, warning that unchecked tech power could harm workers, children, and the conduct of warfare.

The historic apology acknowledges how the Catholic Church’s highest authority helped give European powers religious cover to subjugate and enslave

In his "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical, Pope Leo warns that as civilization grapples with the power of AI, the main challenge is remaining "profoundly human."

In his first encyclical, the first US-born pope described the Church's delayed condemnation of slavery as a "wound in Christian memory" and formally asked forgiveness on behalf of the institution.

Pope Leo XIV is right about the need to make AI answer to the human good — artificial intelligence has to be subject to human moral responsibility. But whose? The pope warns aga

Pope Leo XIV made an appeal to AI developers in a 42,000-word papal encyclical, his first since ascending to the papacy. Here's what he wrote. (AP Photo)

Leo wrote that the Church had taken too long to fully recognize slavery’s incompatibility with Christian teaching, calling it “a wound in Christian memory.” The post Pope Leo Makes Historic Public Apology for Vatican’s Complicity in Slavery first appeared on Mediaite.

Pope Leo XIV says Vatican finances do not keep him up at night. In his first year, rising Vatican bank income and renewed interest from American Catholic donors suggest he may have reason for calm.

Pope LEO XIV delivered a warning on artificial intelligence Monday. CBS News correspondent Chris Livesay reports.