AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoEU AI Crackdown: Brussels lawmakers struck a provisional deal to ban “nudifier” apps used for nonconsensual intimate imagery and for generating child sexual abuse material—an urgent rights move welcomed by faith leaders ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s May 25 encyclical. Vatican AI Warning: Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça warned that AI deepfakes can “alter the grammar of the human encounter,” while the Vatican also signaled that ethics alone won’t hold without a deeper human-centered revolution. Papal Governance: Pope Leo told lay movements that Church leadership must serve communion, not prestige or personal power. Diplomacy in the Middle East: Pakistani bishops invited Pope Leo to visit, citing minority concerns, as Catholicos Aram I pressed for Lebanon and Artsakh protections in talks with Vatican Secretary of State Parolin. Culture Watch: Rome’s “sexy priest” calendar kept drawing attention after claims some models never entered seminary—another reminder that Vatican-adjacent controversies travel fast.
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