Patrick tackles deep questions about the rapid advance of technology and its implications on faith and society. He explores whether our quest with AI is inadvertently trying to play God, discusses the moral dilemmas of scientific advancements, and examines how continuing to trust in divine guidance brings both caution and hope for the future. Plus, he engages with wonderful callers on topics from church wealth to finding a spiritual home.

 

• Email – Meredith - Your discussion about Artificial Intelligence makes me wonder if all of this is about trying to become God. I am impressed but also unsettled about what the real ultimate goal is. (00:47)
• Anna - I think AI is probably going to cause more problems than benefits. (08:48)
• Mark - NASA giving money to the poor is as if the Church sold everything and gave it to the poor. It wouldn't help in the long run. (19:03)
• Billy - My wife has become more devout in the last year or so. we would like to become Catholic. As the husband do I decide which parish we are confirmed in? We have different preferences. (29:22)
• Nicole - I attended a wedding of a non-Catholic to a Catholic. I assumed there would be a Mass, but there wasn't. Did I do something wrong by going? (39:47)
• Tim - Selling off items in the Church. My son won a scout badge and we went to the Cathedral. If there wasn't a Cathedral, we would have had no place to go. (44:26)
• Ezekiel - Can I choose two different Saints for Confirmation? (46:02)