Show Notes
What does it mean to be human in the world of AI? Why should we recognize that every human being has equal value? What does Catholic Social Teaching have to do with this? In the inaugural Fully Human show episode, speaker, Substack bestseller, and Penguin Random House author Eliza Monts shares her “pro-human manifesto” of what the Catholic Church teaches about the inherent worth of every single human being alive.
00:00 Industrial Revolution Misery 00:41 Rerum Novarum Begins 01:36 Romanticism Then and Now 02:51 Welcome to Fully Human 03:45 Why This Podcast Exists 05:46 Episode Roadmap 07:16 State of the Union 2026 10:46 Attacks on Human Dignity 12:28 AI and Human Worth 13:11 Why Humans Matter 15:11 Imago Dei and Pope Leo 19:04 Fully Human Manifesto 21:27 Seamless Garment Teaching 23:19 Reading the AI Encyclical 25:38 Romans Benediction Outro
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