I am grateful to Pope Leo XIV for his first encyclical which addresses the faith and moral issues of AI and its subsequent impact on the sharing of the world’s water resources. His encyclical is entitled Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. In this letter to the world, he is asking us to uphold the dignity of the human person in our development and decisions about AI. He is declaring this is a moral issue as much as i

I am a conservative because I believe in conserving sacred spaces. One of those places is Yellowstone National Park, a sacred place I visited this past week. While many of you were worshipping inside man-made sanctuaries, I was worshipping in the sacred temple created by God in the lower Montana and upper Wyoming region. There I watched a geyser spew near-boiling water 130 feet into the air at almost the exact minute the park geologists predicted. I drove my car close enough

I started C3 six years ago after the birth of my first grandson because I was concerned about what scientists were saying regarding the trajectory of a warming planet and its threat to all creation. Scientists warned that unchecked fossil fuel emissions could destabilize human civilization by the end of this century. A strong scientific consensus emerged that if global temperatures rise 2°C above pre-industrial levels, cascading effects could follow—rising seas, extreme weath