Less of a Theory
Matthew Carey JordanThoughts on faith, life, and culture
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Magnifica Humanitas: Chapter Four (Audio Only)
To read along with this recording, go to the Vatican website.
Work at the Porthmadog Tiling Company factory, 1959 [Photo credit: Geoff Charles, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons]
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Magnifica Humanitas: Chapter Three (Audio Only)
To read along with this recording, go to the Vatican website.
This chapter isn’t one that lends itself to exactly one image, but the theme of mutual dependence and support is significant, and when you search Wikimedia Commons for pictures...
Arguing about Religion
[Note to podcast and audiobook fans: Some Substack essays are accompanied by an audio version produced entirely by machines. Please be advised that the “article voiceover” above is a recording of an actual human being—the author of this ess...
Being More Human
Background
In May 2026, Pope Leo XIV issued the first encyclical of his pontificate: Magnificent Humanity: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. I am writing these words three months later, as one of...
Magnifica Humanitas: Chapter Two (Audio Only)
To read along with this recording, go to the Vatican website.
This is the best picture Wikimedia Commons had for “solidarity.” Apparently it is the cover of a book called—and I quote—Braterstwo, solidarność, współdziałanie.
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Ph.D. in philosophy, Evangelical-to-Catholic convert, longtime doubter, father of seven, seminary employee, Cleveland fan, C. S. Lewis aficionado, and very happily married husband. All opinions are my own. AI-free since 2024!
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