Pope Leo's Encyclical, School's Ban Phones and Fidelity Month
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Pope Leo's Letter has some thoughts on artificial intelligence; an increasing number of schools are telling students to leave their phones at home; Pride Month isn't getting as much recognition this year and college students can't read.
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Segment 1 – Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas and Schools Ban Phones
Segment 2 – Fidelity Month
Segment 3 – College Students Can't Read
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:07.6 | Today we're going to talk about Pope Leo's new encyclical on artificial intelligence and magnificence of the human person. |
| 0:15.0 | Then we're going to talk about Pride Month and Fidelity Month. We have a lot to get to this week. We are so glad you're with us. Stick around. |
| 0:24.1 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria |
| 0:28.3 | Bear, alongside John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center, fresh back in our respective studios |
| 0:34.4 | from the 26th Colson Center National Conference, which, as always, was so much |
| 0:39.6 | fun. John, how many commissioned Colson fellows did we have this year? Well, they're live. I think it was |
| 0:46.0 | around 600, which is a lot of names to read out. But that's only about a... Do you read the names? |
| 0:51.8 | Oh, no, no, no. But it's only about a third, a little bit less than a third of the total overall number |
| 0:57.3 | of commission fellows. |
| 0:58.8 | Is this the biggest group we've ever had? |
| 1:00.7 | It was the biggest conference, biggest class of Colson Fellows, I think, either this |
| 1:06.8 | or last year, so right around in that ballpark. |
| 1:09.3 | So, yeah, very exciting to see all that. |
| 1:11.7 | And so fun to meet so many people who listen to the podcast and who've been going through the program. And man, it's just a really fun weekend. So that was really fun. I'm glad to have met some of you who were there. And those of you who didn't make it, there's always next year in Charlotte, which we announced this year. |
| 1:28.0 | Well, Donald, let's get into the show for the week. |
| 1:29.4 | So I want to start with you with you who didn't make it, there's always next year in Charlotte, which we announced this year. |
| 1:28.0 | Well, Donald, let's get into the show for the week. So I want to start with you with Pope Leo's |
| 1:32.6 | new encyclical. This has been, people have been waiting for this. He called it Magnifica |
| 1:38.5 | Humanitas. I'm sorry about my Latin pronunciation. But this is sort of the Vatican's guidance on how to approach artificial intelligence and |
| 1:48.8 | that kind of technology more generally. |
| 1:51.0 | I thought it was incredibly beautiful. |
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