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Pontifical Academy for Life

A scientist filters out samples during the research and development of a vaccine against COVID-19 June 11, 2020, at a laboratory in St. Petersburg, Russia. Spanish Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera of Valencia made headlines June 5, 2020, when he described as a "work of the devil" attempts to find a COVID-19 vaccine using cell lines created from fetuses aborted voluntarily decades ago. (CNS photo/Anton Vaganov, Reuters)

Church leaders urge scientists to develop ethical COVID-19 vaccine

Cindy Wooden|Jun 15, 2020|3 Min Read

A police protester in Atlanta demonstrates May 31, 2020. Demonstrations continue after a white police officer in Minneapolis was caught on a bystander's video May 25 pressing his knee into the neck of George Floyd, an African American, who later died at a hospital. (CNS photo/Dustin Chambers, Reuters)

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Vatican official: Racism is 'spiritual' virus that must be wiped out

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jun 1, 2020|3 Min Read

Funeral and crematorium employees push a coffin carrying a victim of COVID-19 at San Isidro crematory in Mexico City May 21, 2020. (CNS photo/Carlos Jasso, Reuters)

Vatican official supports day to remember coronavirus victims

Junno Arocho Esteves|May 28, 2020|3 Min Read

Research support officers and doctoral students Luca Bondin and Foaad Haddad discuss an artificial intelligence project to train robots to autonomously carry out various tasks at the Department of Artificial Intelligence in the Faculty of Information Communication Technology at the University of Malta in Msida, Malta, Feb. 8, 2019. The Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life is fostering ethics and multidisciplinary alliances in the AI debate. (CNS photo/Darrin Zammit Lupi, Reuters)

Papal academy fosters ethics, multidisciplinary alliances in AI debate

Carol Glatz|May 11, 2020|3 Min Read

To survive the coronavirus pandemic, "we must isolate ourselves from each other, but if we were ever to learn to live isolated from one another, we would quickly realize how essential for our lives is life with others," said a new document from the Pontifical Academy for Life. (CNS photo/ Marzio Toniolo, Reuters)

Papal academy says solidarity among ethical responses needed in pandemic

Carol Glatz|Mar 30, 2020|5 Min Read

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, speaks during an interview in his office at the Vatican April 17, 2018. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Science-solidarity combo needed to stop pandemic, says Vatican official

Cindy Wooden|Mar 17, 2020|2 Min Read

A robot equipped with artificial intelligence is seen at the AI Xperience Center at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels Feb. 19, 2020. The use of artificial intelligence in science and medicine must be guided by ethical standards that place humanity and the pursuit of the common good first, Pope Francis said Feb. 28 in a message to participants in the general assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Yves Herman, Reuters)

Humanity, ethics must be at center of AI technology, pope says

Junno Arocho Esteves|Feb 28, 2020|3 Min Read

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, speaks during a news conference at the Vatican Feb. 25, 2020. Also pictured is Franciscan Father Paolo Benanti, a professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University and specialist in digital ethics. Speakers previewed a Feb. 26-27 workshop and assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life on artificial intelligence. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Papal academy invites tech giants to support ethical guidelines for AI

Carol Glatz|Feb 25, 2020|2 Min Read

Michael Wee, from the Oxford-based Anscombe Bioethics Centre. (Courtesy to Crux)

New Academy for Life member: Bioethics not about condemning everything

Charles Collins|Feb 4, 2020|9 Min Read

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