Just days before more than a dozen scholars convened in Rome for a symposium on the Catholic social tradition (CST), the Vatican released Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on the human person in the age of artificial intelligence. The timing gave fresh urgency to the conversations about to unfold over three days. The research symposium, titled “Modern Catholic Social Teaching in the American Anthropocene: Theological and Historical Perspectives on Labor and Land,” opened at...