✍️ Thursday evening, June 18th, 2026, 20:00 (European Central Time):

📍 Den Haag

Costs: €5,-

Pope Leo XIV has signed his first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, or “Magnificent Humanity” on May 15, 2026 and presented the encyclical May 25. It outlines the Pope’s moral vision for engaging with artificial intelligence. In the early days of his pontificate, Leo signaled his intention to follow the path of both his predecessor and his namesake, Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903). Leo XIII’s landmark encyclical Rerum Novarum (“Of New Things”) is widely regarded as the first major social encyclical of the modern papal era.

The ICP organizes an evening of close reading of Magnifica Humanitas, exploration of Catholic Social Teaching against the background of the encyclical Rerum Novarum.

Preparation

Please read:

• Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas

• The first two paragraphs of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum: Rerum Novarum (May 15, 1891)

Registration for the course (registration is no longer possible since we have reached the maximum amount of participants)

Please register via this form.

We ask you to pay a small fee of €5,-. You can find the IBAN at this page or take the money in cash with you. Please transfer before attending.