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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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Reconstructing Wholeness

By Ed Bacon | September 14, 2018

Transgender experiences are teaching us a great deal when we have learning hearts. I deeply appreciate the reality that our transgender siblings in the human family share about being “assigned”…

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Schism or Evolution?

By Ilia Delio | September 7, 2018

Something momentous is happening in our midst. The concerted efforts to oust Pope Francis are deeply tied to the perverted crisis of abuse embedded in ecclesiastical power structures.  While some…

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Death In The Church: Is New Life Ahead?

By Ilia Delio | August 28, 2018

The recent disclosure of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and the extent of depravity reported in the news is symptomatic of a Church in crisis.  It is no longer…

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Teilhard de Chardin and the Three Faces of God

By Paul Smith | August 17, 2018

I have been invited to reflect here on my experience at Ilia Delio’s Omega Center Conference in Kansas City in July of 2018. I arrived there eager to thank Ilia…

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Omega Conference: Towards a planetary faith

By Ilia Delio | August 6, 2018

I just returned from a wonderful five-day retreat at San Alfonso Retreat House in Long Branch New Jersey. It is always a special time of the year because it is…

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Towards a renewal of the whole

By Ilia Delio | July 12, 2018

We are living on a fragile planet right now. The forces of resistance are felt all around us as we seek to hold on to our personal wealth, privileged security,…

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Teilhard de chardin: a big thinker for a big universe

By Ilia Delio | June 28, 2018

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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Boundaries, Bark, And Incarnation

By Matthew Wright | June 6, 2018

The boundaries are gone.  We may not have all realized it yet, but they’ve dissolved right in front of us.  Certainly, many of us—maybe most of us—are playing as if…

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Why We Need To Talk About Christianity As Planetary Faith

By Ilia Delio | April 12, 2018

Several weeks ago I met my first real Teilhard opponent.  She was a religion scholar from Indiana University and was quite adamant that Teilhard was a naïve optimist with a…

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