My tiny thread yesterday is now a whole op-ed! A quick read, connecting Pope Leo's apology for colonialism and slavery to his warnings about AI — it's all related. Working with editor @mpgphd.bsky.social was an absolutely pleasure!
Roopika Risam
the latest from RD: @roopikarisam.bsky.social on what makes Leo XIV's first encyclical so radical -- tracing AI back through histories of enslavement and exploitation, and repenting for the RCC's complicity in both
religiondispatches.org/2026/05/26/l...
religiondispatches.org
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical this week, on the 135th anniversary of his eponymous predecessor’s landmark Rerum Novarum, or Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor. And like Leo XIII befor...
