While discussing solutions to the dehumanising aspects of AI the Pope quotes Tolkien. (Quoting Gandalf)
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
- The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”