It happened on MARCH 7

1274

St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and the patron saint of theological studies, died. In January of that year, he began travelling to Lyons, where Pope Gregory X (1271-1276) had invited him to participate in an ecumenical council. Along the way, he became gravely ill and was taken to the Cistercian monastery in Fossanova. All attempts to cure him failed, and after several weeks he died. The nature of his illness remains uncertain. Without a doubt, Aquinas achieved the most important medieval synthesis between theology, philosophy, and the science of his time.

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AI Ethics Two Years after ChatGPT

Introduction, by Jeffrey Pawlick 

Antiqua et Nova, Notes on the Relationships between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dicastery for Culture and Education (2025)

The AI Dilemma (video), Center for Humane Technology (2023)

The Asilomar AI Principles, Future of Life Institute (2017)

Managing the Risks of Generative AI, Harvard Business Review (2023)

The United Nations Resolution on AI, United Nations General Assembly (2024)

Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, UNESCO (2021)

 AI Thinks. But Do We?, by Riccardo Manzotti (2023)

 AI and the Vatican: What AI is and how it can be used, by Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti (2025)

    

Peace, Science and development

  The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1954)

  The Erice Statement (1982)

  Addendum to the Erice Manifesto (2023)

  International Science Council Statement on the
  occasion of the United Nations International Day
  of Living Together in Peace (2024)

  Peace: a need inscribed in the heart of human,
  from the Compendium of the Social Doctrine
  of the Church (2004) 

Pope Francis, Address to the Pontifical Academy of Science (2022)

    

Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science

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Anthology and Documents

To emphasize and spread relevant documents within the scientific community, this section provides key materials concerning the dialogue among science, philosophy and theology.

   

Special Issues

We offer here a selection of comments and documents on special issues in Religion and Science, collected for anniversaries and/or for the relevance of the topics.