After an iconic statue of St. Junipero Serra went missing from a freeway in South San Francisco, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone joins to discuss what he knows about its whereabouts, and how the city is not being truthful about what happened. California state officials claim to have reported their intentions to remove the 22-foot high statue, but the Archbishop says his office had no forewarning or input on the devastating loss of a beloved cultural and Catholic emblem.

With AI flooding into every aspect of our lives including the classroom, Ari Schulman of The New Atlantis joins to share his greatest concerns about these new technologies, including the dangerous ways smartphones have completely changed our social landscape. He explores whether social media is dehumanizing us, undermining relationships, and robbing humans of creativity.

Father Thomas Petri joins to mark six months since the election of the first American-born Roman Pontiff and discusses the developments of Pope Leo XIV’s papacy. Pope Leo has demonstrated a continued commitment to social justice with a renewed openness toward traditional liturgy, and made history by joining in the historic prayer meeting with Britain’s King Charles last month.

Plus, we celebrate the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica with Msgr. Roger Landry. The event commemorates the dedication of the first public church ever built for Christians following the religious freedom granted by the Edict of Milan, and celebrates the Church’s unity and history. 

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Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is the Archbishop of San Francisco, a position where he has served since being appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. Cordileone was born and raised in San Diego and first ordained as a priest in 1982. He went on to earn a doctorate in canon law from the Gregorian University. Prior to his installment as Archbishop of San Francisco, he served as Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego, followed by a period of service as the Bishop of Oakland. Archbishop Cordileone is well known for his work on canon law, beauty and music in liturgy, and for being an outspoken voice for reproductive rights and advocate of support for the poor.

Ari Schulman is the editor of The New Atlantis, a journal dedicated to covering the social, ethical, and political implications of modern science and technological advancements. His writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Atlantic, First Things, and numerous other publications. He was a contributor to The New Atlantis’ Futurisms blog – a site which covered critiques of transhumanism, and he previously served as a research assistant at the New York Times. He also worked as an ontological engineer for Cycorp, an Austin, Texas based company that developed a machine reasoning AI platform aiming to provide common sense reasoning to software applications. He earned degrees in computer science and English from the University of Texas at Austin.

Monsignor Roger Landry is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. A graduate of Harvard and the Pontifical North American College in Rome, he served as Attaché to the Holy See’s Permanent Observer Mission to the UN in New York. In 2024, he was appointed the new National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the USA by Pope Francis. He writes for numerous publications, speaks on radio and TV, and served as executive editor for the weekly newspaper of the Diocese of Fall River. He is the author of the book, Plan of Life: Habits to Help You Grow Closer to God, and he leads pilgrimages to Rome, the Holy Land, and other sacred destinations. He was an on-site commentator for EWTN’s coverage of the 2013 papal conclave that elected Pope Francis. He is national chaplain for Catholic Voices USA and New York Chaplain for the Leonine Forum.  Father Landry traversed the full 1500-mile Eucharist Pilgrimage in 2024, an event which coincided with his 25th year in the priesthood.

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