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  1. The Questions ChatGPT Can’t Answer

    September 03, 2026

    Meghan Sullivan, a Catholic philosopher at the University of Notre Dame who often meets with AI leaders and developers, said many workers in the industry “talk very flippantly” about job displacement and AI being able to do work faster and cheaper. Some are trying to transcend work and get to a place where they devote all their time to family and hobbies, like gardening and crafts. 

  2. AI in the Catholic classroom: As a new school year starts, what role does it play?

    August 29, 2026

    AI awareness has been evolving, according to Lily Abadal, a partner at Catholic school consultants Partners in Mission, a professor at the University of South Florida and faculty fellow with a project at the University of Notre Dame called DELTA — Human Formation in the Age of AI.

  3. Everyday Holiness Podcast: Prof. Meghan Sullivan

    August 27, 2026

    Prof. Meghan Sullivan shares the ways God has guided important moments in her life, including teaching philosophy at Notre Dame, creating the God and the Good Life course, and serving as a key leader in the conversation about faith and artificial intelligence.

  4. As students embrace AI, universities scramble to keep up

    August 22, 2026

    “With each passing day a machine becomes capable — or seemingly capable — of doing something that until yesterday you and I thought only a human being could ever do,” said Adam Kronk, an ethicist at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good. “What does it mean to be a human being? What does human flourishing look like? Why am I here? Why am I in school? It makes these questions much more acute and felt.”

  5. Notre Dame professor with focus on AI is 'guardedly optimistic' about it

    August 21, 2026

    Today, Sullivan remains "guardedly optimistic" about what AI will mean down the road on campus, for churches and for the world. Notre Dame's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good has brought in over $60 million in grants in recent months to support research and projects focused on supporting ethics and humanistic concerns. Some of that funding helped create the DELTA framework and a website full of useful resources.

  6. "What AI Will Never Have" with Dr. Meghan Sullivan

    August 20, 2026

    Philosopher Meghan Sullivan, the Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame and director of the university's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, joins Chris and Eddie for a conversation that starts with Socrates and ends up in a conference room at an AI company. Meghan traces her own path from an intentionally obscure grad-school dissertation on the nature of time to teaching "God and the Good Life," one of Notre Dame's most popular courses. From there the conversation turns to her current work on AI and human dignity, built around a framework she calls DELTA — Dignity, Embodiment, Love, Transcendence, Agency.

  7. When Catholic higher education meets A.I.: We can’t let new technology override moral wisdom

    August 13, 2026

    From University President Fr. Bob Dowd: "In a world with A.I., the humanities, which have always been at the core of Catholic higher education, have never been more important. All academic disciplines, from finance to biology to chemical engineering, develop important capacities for analysis and understanding, and they play critical roles in advancing human knowledge. At the same time, it is essential to study the humanities—philosophy, theology, literature, history and the arts—for the rich wisdom they offer on the most fundamental questions: what it means to be human, why there is suffering in the world and how to pursue truth."

  8. Historic divinity school is offering the first doctoral degree in ‘AI and Moral Agency’

    July 30, 2026

    “Almost everybody we’re talking with and working with in higher education right now is just getting really serious about how issues involving artificial intelligence are really shaping a lot of the ethical questions that we want to study going forward, and a lot of the formation work that we need to do with our students,” said Meghan Sullivan, a philosopher and director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good at Notre Dame.

  9. Pastors Using AI to Help Write Sermons Grapple With Where to Draw the Line

    July 19, 2026

    Meghan Sullivan, a University of Notre Dame professor of philosophy who is leading a research project on AI and religion, said that using AI to draft anything spoken in worship reflects a basic misunderstanding of what Christians believe is happening when a preacher delivers a homily.

  10. Us vs. the Robots

    June 30, 2026

    From Meghan Sullivan: "When Pope Leo XIV took office last year, he indicated that he would devote substantial attention to the challenges posed by artificial intelligence. In this regard, his choice of a papal name was no accident: he specifically referenced Pope Leo XIII, who in 1891 wrote an encyclical, Rerum novarum, that offered thoughts on how to rein in the most dehumanizing aspects of the Industrial Revolution. With Magnifica humanitas, Leo has delivered on that promise and then some. The hard work now begins to ensure that his teaching reaches its intended audience."

  11. AI gets religion

    May 28, 2026

    What does A 2,000-year-old world religion have to say about powerful AI? As it turns out, a lot – more than 42,000 words, give or take, depending on the language in which you are reading the encyclical. . . 

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    Meghan Sullivan is the director of the Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good. 

  12. To Understand Pope Leo’s Efforts on A.I., Look at the Man Shaking His Hand

    May 26, 2026

    The University of Notre Dame received a $50 million grant from the Lilly Endowment in December to develop faith-based ethical frameworks for A.I. through its Institute for Ethics and the Common Good.

  13. Notre Dame professor breaks down key takeaways from Pope Leo’s AI warning

    May 26, 2026

    Paul Scherz, a theology professor at the university, said the pope is not calling for a ban on technology but is focused on who controls it.

    Pope Leo released the encyclical, titled Magnifica Humanitas, on Monday. Scherz called it the church’s first major statement focused on AI ethics.

  14. 5 ways Pope Leo says AI could warp humanity

    May 25, 2026

    "Pope Leo has announced himself as one of the leading figures in AI ethics now with this document," Meghan Sullivan, director of Notre Dame's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, tells Axios. . .

  15. Pope Leo's first encyclical will address AI and 'magnificent humanity'

    May 24, 2026

    Pope Leo plans to release an encyclical on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to University of Notre Dame professor Meghan Sullivan. . .

  16. Why is AI company Anthropic helping launch Pope Leo XIV's encyclical?

    May 22, 2026

    In March, a small group of Christians gathered at Anthropic's San Francisco headquarters for a meeting organized partly by Olah. Among those in attendance was Meghan Sullivan, a philosopher at the University of Notre Dame who directs its Institute for Ethics and the Common Good.

  17. Something Big Is Happening on Campus

    May 17, 2026

    Meghan Sullivan’s “God and the Good Life” is perhaps the most popular course at Notre Dame. She walks students through the large life topics: how to live generously with your money, how to take responsibility in your community, how to manage suffering, how to prepare for death. . .

  18. Pope creates artificial intelligence study group as Vatican prepares to release his first encyclical

    May 16, 2026

    “I think that the Catholic Church in many ways is going to be the adult in the room on some of these debates about how we are going to integrate AI into the rest of our society,” said Meghan Sullivan, a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame who directs its ethics institute. “For sure, the pope is going to be one of the most forceful advocates for human dignity in these discussions.”

  19. God Forbid podcast: Can we truly love AI? And can it love us back?

    May 05, 2026

    Falling in love with a machine is supposed to be the stuff of science-fiction. About a decade ago, Spike Jonze made the film Her, about a lonely man Theodore, played by Joaquin Phoenix, falling in love with his operating system, Samantha. Is romantic love just in our hearts and heads, or does it require another human to be real?

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    GUESTS: Professor Meghan Sullivan, Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Also, the Founding Director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good . . .

  20. Catholic social teaching says all work is good for us—paid or unpaid.

    May 04, 2026

    When the framers of Catholic social teaching say work can be good for us, they mean work in the inclusive definition—not only paid labor, but any activity in which humans transform the world and ourselves.

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    Kate Ward is assistant professor of theological ethics at Marquette University. Her research and teaching focus on economic ethics, virtue ethics and ethical method.