Not all Catholic AI bots are creepy: Some new tools for learning about the faith
The CatéGPT logo. / Credit: CatéGPT CNA Staff, May 6, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). If you have a question about a teaching of the Catholic Church in 2024, where do you go for a solid answer? You can crack open the catechism yourself, ask a trusted personal source like a priest or theologian, or […]
An Afternoon With the New Swiss Guards: Preparing For a Mission of Faith and Service
Matthew Santucci/CNA Swiss Guard cadets prepare their armor in the guards’ barracks at the Vatican on April 30, 2024. The Swiss Guard is indeed the smallest standing army in the world, numbering only 135 members.
Not All Catholic AI Bots Are Creepy: Some New Tools for Learning About the Faith
The CatéGPT logo. Nicolas Torcheboeuf, a 31-year-old Swiss engineer and a Catholic, developed CatéGPT in his spare time and launched it in the late spring of 2023.
Venerable Mindszenty and the battle for the Church under Communism
For as long as there has been a Church, Church leaders have often found themselves at odds with government leaders. The argument may be over domestic goals, foreign wars, influence peddling, heresies, or inconvenient moral […]
Jerusalem’s Orthodox Easter sees pilgrims barred, tight police patrols
A strong police presence and a slew of restrictions defined this year’s Orthodox Easter Holy Saturday celebration in the Holy Land May 4, as pilgrims opted to stay away amid regional tensions.
Ukraine and Russia mark their third Orthodox Easter during wartime
Orthodox Christians, following the Julian calendar, celebrated Easter on Sunday, May 5, embracing the holiday as a symbol of hope and joy in the resurrection. In both Ukraine and Russia, it is the third year the festival is observed amid the ongoing conflict.
Hinduism: Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, the divine beggar
Yann Vagneux, a priest of the Paris Foreign Missions living in India,discusses Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, the great Bengali mystic, and highlights howin Hinduism, holiness grows in proportion to both external and internal renunciation
Papal interview: nostalgia for trains, call for ‘healthy pressure’ to protect environment (La Freccia (pp. 38-42))
Traveling by public transportation is “one of the things I miss most,” Pope Francis said in an interview with La Freccia, the monthly magazine of the Italian state railway. “I have always loved travelling by public transport,” the Pope recalled. “It’s a way to be among people, to feel their warmth and their worries.” “The […]
Las limitaciones físicas no son un obstáculo para progresar
(OSV News) — A pesar de las limitaciones físicas, el inmigrante José Saavedra, 59, se preocupa por su capacitación profesional, batalla para ser independiente y superar el dolor por la pérdida de su esposa y tiene el empuje para progresar en la vida. “Quedarse sin piernas de la noche a la mañana no es fácil. […]
Panama elects new President
With most of the votes counted and verified, Jose Raul Mulino has won Panama’s Presidential Election, while the future of the original main candidate still hangs in the balance. Read all