Notes from the four-minute introduction video at the Presentation of the Encyclical
| i | From-To | Pope | Images |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1878-1903 | Leo XIII | Giant military antenna?; Vatican?; Dignitary? in fancy horse carriage; Pope; Diesel Train; Dark industrial smog; Smoke stacks |
| 2 | 1903-1914 | St Pius X | Soldiers: on battlefield, in trenches, firing canons |
| 3 | 1914-1922 | Benedict XV | Power station; Electric grid towers (lots and lots); Communications device? |
| 4 | 1922-1939 | Pius XI | Company towns?; Typed letter; Newspapers made; Work ad for die makers; Factory floor; Soldiers; Nazi soldiers; Nazi pageantry; Nazi bombers; Nazi bombardment platoon; So many bombs dropped; Huge explosion |
| 5 | 1939-1958 | Ven. Pius XII | Pope next to mainframe computer; Automobiles; Shoppers |
| 6 | 1958-1963 | St John XXIII | USA Rocket ship takeoff |
| 7 | 1963-1978 | St Paul VI | Pope looking through giant telescope; Pope speaking on a TV broadcast |
| 8 | 1978 | BI. John Paul I | Pope speaking on TV; Pope at an atheletics stadium event and on the Jumbotron; Military on wall painted with “Peace” graffiti; Wall being torn down; ? |
| 9 | 1978-2005 | St John Paul II | Pope shaking hands on TV w/Russian Leader, Mikhail Gorbachev (Historic event); Pope on red carpet w/Kissinger w/military in background; Black and white PC monitor; Floppy drive; Tape drives; Color PC monitor; Programs running in GUI; Mouse; Keyboard; Pope being shown PC laptop; 9/11 terror attack on NYC twin towers; People on ground watching NYC’s twin towers burn; Facebook; People together physically, but focused only on their own phones; Doom-scrolling |
| 10 | 2005-2013 | Benedict XVI | Pope selects menu on tablet |
| 11 | 2013-2025 | Francis | People videoing Pope Francis on phone cameras becomes Pope Francis smiling wholeheartily and high-fiving lots of people (human-to-human contact); TV broadcast |
| 12 | 2025- | Leo XIV | People videoing Pope Leo on phone cameras; Pope waving at inauguration |
In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor.
Even in the darkest nights, the Lord raises up men and women who refuse to give up, who persevere in doing good, who protect the vulnerable and open pathways to reconciliation.
We are brothers and sisters in Him. And in Christ, though many and diverse, we are one: “In Illo uno unum.”
Pentecost Monday, May 25, 2026
Dear brother Bishop,
May the Holy Spirit “renew the face of the earth” and the magnificent humanity God has created and Jesus Christ has saved.
Please join me in bringing our magisterium to the whole Church and all the world.
Fraternally in the episcopate,
Leo PP. XIV
Given in Rome, on 15 May, in the year 2026, the second of my Pontificate.
Magnifica Humanitas
Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.
SOCIAL JUSTICE