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Bishops Welcome Pope Leo's First Encyclical, National Eucharistic Pilgrimage Launches, and Pope Leo's South American Homecoming
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Maggie Murray of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for May 26, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.
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- Catholic bishops across the U.S. and Mexico are enthusiastically welcoming Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," released Sunday, which applies centuries of Catholic social teaching to the age of artificial intelligence and insists that human dignity must always take precedence over technological progress.
- AI experts and theologians say Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas" delivers an urgent moral challenge to the tech industry, warning against reducing human mystery to data, sounding the alarm on AI's environmental costs, and calling for education that champions genuine human creativity and critical thinking over algorithmic dependence.
- Nine perpetual pilgrims set out on Pentecost Sunday from the oldest site of continuous Catholic presence in the United States, launching the third National Eucharistic Pilgrimage on the six-week "St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Route" up the East Coast to Philadelphia over the Fourth of July weekend.
- Seattle Auxiliary Bishop Frank Schuster celebrated the annual Maritime Day Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, honoring the world's often-overlooked seafarers and highlighting Stella Maris, the Church's global maritime ministry formally established by Pope Leo XIV as an official canonical entity last November.
- Uruguay's bishops announced a "high probability" that Pope Leo XIV will visit their country in late 2026 as part of a South American tour that could also include Argentina and Peru — the nation where the pope served as a missionary and bishop and became a naturalized citizen.
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