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AI, Wisdom, and the Awakening Noosphere

By Ilia Delio | April 26, 2026
When I first started writing on technology and personhood fifteen years ago, very few scholars were reading the signs of the times. Today, discussions and books on AI dominate our attention, ranging across a spectrum from fear to hesitation to cautious integration. Within the Catholic Church, Pope Francis raised early concerns about a technocratic paradigm that risked producing radical economic disparity and “deserts of interior desolation.” The 2025 Note Antiqua et Nova, issued jointly by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Dicastery for Culture and Education—and approved by Francis shortly before his death—continues this line of thinking. Technology is part of humanity’s “collaboration with God in perfecting creation” (para. 37) and can “contribute positively to the...
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To Die on the Day of Resurrection

By Peter Haas | April 8, 2019

One year before Teilhard de Chardin died, his nephew heard Teilhard say that, “I should like to die on the day of Resurrection.” A year later, on April 10th, 1955…

Second Annual Omega Center Conference

Second Annual Omega Center Conference

By Ilia Delio | April 8, 2019

Love at the Heart of the Cosmos: Living in Relational Wholeness   Commonwealth Chateau at SugarLoaf Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA December 6th – 8th, 2019 Check-in begins Friday, December…

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Authentic religion “Within me and between me and thee”

By Leonard Swidler | April 7, 2019

Ours in the West is largely a secularized society. However, especially after 9/11, we have become much more aware of the influence of religion—mostly bad in many people’s eyes. This,…

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry: Interiority and Subjectivity

By Mary Evelyn Tucker | March 26, 2019

Thomas Berry regarded the influence from Teilhard as integral to his thought. They were both concerned with the value and beauty of the universe as well as a commitment to…

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Petitionary Prayer in Light of God’s Uncontrolling Love

By Mark Karris | March 26, 2019

What is petitionary prayer? Petitionary prayer is a specific form of prayer aimed at making requests of God. They make requests of God for answers to life’s questions and concerns.…

Announcing the New Omega Center Website

Announcing the New Omega Center Website

By Gregory Hansell | March 13, 2019

Dear Omega Community, It is with great excitement that we are announcing the relaunched Omega Center website. Please come visit! Ilia and I have been working closely together for the…

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Jazz, Evolution, and Co-creation with Trinity

By Steve Hansen | March 4, 2019

We are exhorted to participate with God as co-creators. But how does this work? Let’s start here: Science tells us all matter is energy. Teilhard understood energy is infused with…

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In Support of Teilhard’s Vision

By Ilia Delio | February 4, 2019

The great medievalist scholar Etienne Gilson once wrote of Bonaventure: “You can either see the general economy of his doctrine in its totality, or see none of it, nor would…

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Trashing Teilhard

By John F. Haught | February 4, 2019

Was the Jesuit scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin really a fascist, racist, genocidal opponent of human dignity? I had thought that, at least among educated Catholics, the question was almost…

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