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Photo illustration. / ShutterstockDenver, Colo., May 7, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).A leading artificial intelligence researcher some call the "godfather" of AI says the technology is developing at a "scary" rate and warns that it should not expand beyond our ability to control it. He joins the voice of many leaders, including Pope Francis, who want to ensure ethical concerns are "built in" at the technologys foundation.Geoffrey Hinton, a longtime researcher at Google new...

Franciscan Univesity of Steubenville students who participated in the Unplugged Scholarship in its first year (from left to right): Theresa Ryan, Grace Pollock, and Paul Merkel / Photos courtesy of Theresa Ryan, Grace Pollock, and Paul MerkelBoston, Mass., May 7, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).As Franciscan University of Steubenville students wrap up their spring semester, a large group of its undergraduates will be heading into summer significantly changed after participating in the schools invitation t...

Null / Credit: Zolnierek / ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 5, 2023 / 18:20 pm (CNA).Rodrigo Iván Cortés, president of the National Front for the Family (FNF) in Mexico, said he will appeal to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights if the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF) rejects his appeal and upholds his Feb. 22 conviction by the Specialized Chamber of the same entity.Cortés appeal was on the agenda of the Superior Chamber for May 3 but at the last ...

A group of migrants from South America crosses the Rio Bravo border between Mexico and the United States to request asylum. / Credit: David Peinado Romero/ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 5, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).Auxiliary Bishop Francisco Javier Acero of the Primatial Archdiocese of Mexico expressed the Churchs profound concern over the "waves of migrants" crossing the country and stressed that those who suffer the most are "unaccompanied minors."Speaking with ACI Prensa, C...

Null / EWTN News NightlyBoston, Mass., May 4, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).The Archdiocese of Hartford is appealing to the Vatican for guidance on how to proceed with its investigation of a possible eucharistic miracle at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Thomaston, Connecticut.The referral is the first public update by the archdiocese since it was first reported in late March that Jesus, truly present in the holy Eucharist, appeared to multiply himself in the ciborium, typically a gold chalice t...

Null / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 4, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Researcher and lawyer Martha Patricia Molina on May 3 presented the third installment of her report "Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church?"The document gives an account of the at least 529 attacks perpetrated by the Daniel Ortega dictatorship in the last five years with 90 committed so far in 2023.In her Zoom presentation made from exile, the researcher exposed the "hostilities, persecution, sieges, desecration, d...

Elisabeth Ohlsen. / Credit: E. OhlsonWashington D.C., May 4, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).An art exhibit at the European Unions Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium, has prompted criticism from conservative politicians in Italy for its display of a blasphemous depiction of Jesus Christ and the apostles.The artwork, a series of photographs by lesbian Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson, includes one of a man who is meant to represent Christ wearing a white robe and a halo made out of stars above h...

Null / Credit: Chodyra Mike 1/Shutterstock.CNA Staff, May 4, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).A federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that The Satanic Temple must be allowed to hold its "After School Satan Club" in a public middle school in Pennsylvanias Saucon Valley School District.U.S. District Court Judge John Gallagher, sitting in Allentown, issued the preliminary injunction just days after The Satanic Temple held its second annual conference called "SatanCon" in Boston, which wa...

Jimmy Lai at a Hong Kong protest / Courtesy of the Acton InstituteWashington D.C., May 5, 2023 / 08:20 am (CNA).A new film about Hong Kong media mogul turned pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has amassed more than 1 million views on YouTube and over 4 million views on TikTok in just two weeks.Interweaving historic footage, video of mass protests and arrests, and interviews with Lai and those who know him well, "The Hong Konger: Jimmy Lais Extraordinary Struggle for Freedom" is a 73-minu...

Pope Francis meets with the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in an audience May 5, 2023. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 5, 2023 / 09:15 am (CNA).Pope Francis invited the Vaticans child protection commission to have "a spirituality of reparation" toward victims of clergy sexual abuse and to examine where the Church has committed "sins of omission" in this area."The sexual abuse of minors by clergy and its poor handling by Church leaders has be...