AI Ethics From the Vatican: Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, frames AI as today’s “Tower of Babel” risk—warning that systems can concentrate power, treat people as data, and weaken responsibility, while urging human-centered safeguards. Industry Response: Anthropic, after outreach to the Vatican, calls for a global pause or slowdown in advanced AI development, citing fears of “recursive self-improvement” and humans losing control. Church Governance Research: A synodal governance symposium at Australian Catholic University’s Rome campus highlights lay-led canonical structures and how decision-making can work in communion with bishops. Spain Visit, Human Dignity in Public Life: In Madrid, Leo addressed Spain’s parliament and major cultural figures, linking law, migrants’ rights, and opposition to polarisation to the inviolable dignity of the person. Space & Vatican-Adjacent Tech: ESA, via a Czech partnership with Vast, signs on for a private astronaut mission to the ISS—another reminder of how fast space tech is moving. Human Stories, Not Metrics: A profile of a blind Kerala entrepreneur shows devotion sustaining a pilgrim food business, while the week also covered the ongoing plight of Iraq’s dwindling Christians.