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AI, Technology, and Violence

Father Daniel Franklin E. Pilario, C.M. -
Because “a world in which machines, albeit sophisticated and faster than us, are the ones to decide to bomb defenseless people, would be truly frightening"

Child-abuse challenges for Zameco II, telcos, Church

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Nothing could be more positive and life-affirming than the church biting the bullet and making sure that sexually abusive priests are made to pay for their sins

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In an age tempted to solve suffering out of existence rather than accompany it, she remains a strange, stubborn, necessary witness
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