Earlier this year, Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, addressing the safeguarding of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence. It's a document that speaks directly into the world we organise in: it calls for technology to serve the common good rather than corrode it, and warns against a 'post-humanist' drift toward treating some people as second-class, subordinate to the interests of elites who see themselves as superior.

For those of us rooted in broad-based community organising, that's not an abstract theological point - it's the argument for why our work matters.

The encyclical insists the choice before us isn't between technology and humanity, but what kind of humanity we choose to be. That's a question about power, relationships, and the common good - the very 'building site' Citizens UK works in every day.

Join us for a conversation exploring what Magnifica Humanitas offers organisers, leaders, and Catholic communities grappling with AI, work, dignity, and power in their own institutions and neighbourhoods.

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