What the Church has to say about the social sciences

Episode 83 December 11, 2024 00:46:57
What the Church has to say about the social sciences
Catholic News
What the Church has to say about the social sciences

Dec 11 2024 | 00:46:57

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Show Notes

We have a special guest for this Catholic News podcast episode – Sister Helen Alford OP, the President of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Sister Alford, a religious sister of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena, was born in London and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in manufacturing engineering, where she was also awarded a PhD. Touching upon Artificial Intelligence, the role data could play in telling the Church’s story, and what Catholic social teaching has to say about a “human-centred economy”, Sister Alford gives a deep insight into what the Church has to […]

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