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Left to right: Paolo Carozza, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame; Christine Rosen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Carter Snead, a Notre Dame law professor and bioethicist, discuss “the corporeal dimension of human identity in an age of virtual reality” at the New York Encounter in New York City on Feb. 15, 2025.

New York Encounter: Technology is costing us our humanity, experts say

Feb 15, 2025

By Zelda Caldwell

Technology is robbing us of our humanity, turning humans in some respects into “disembodied” minds, panelists at the three-day New... Read more

Pope Francis holds a puzzle cube during his meeting with young people at a sports arena in Budapest, Hungary, on April 29, 2023.

TEXT: ‘Don’t be couch potatoes!’ Pope Francis urges youth

Apr 29, 2023

By Pope Francis

“Life is real, not virtual. It does not take place on a screen, but in the world!” Pope Francis said... Read more

Pope Francis at the General Audience in St. Peter's Square, April 18, 2018.

Pope Francis: Youth are lost in a 'virtual world', instead of reality

May 14, 2018

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis said Monday he is worried that youth are too enmeshed in a virtual world of cell phones and... Read more

Virtual reality: An answer to the pope's call for creativity in medicine?

May 5, 2018

By Elise Harris

Chronic pain reduction. Improvement in paralysis. Restoration of sight amid macular degeneration. These are just some of the results being... Read more

Image from new film, "Jesus VR - The Story of Christ." Courtesy of Paul Lauer.

Virtual reality film lets users experience the life of Christ

Sep 12, 2016

By Hannah Brockhaus

If you have ever wondered what it would be like to have been there when Jesus preached the Sermon on... Read more

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