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Task force épiscopale, rencontre avec les géants technologiques et lobbying au Congrès : l’Église américaine veut passer des grands principes sur l’IA à des règles concrètes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇺🇸 Summary The Catholic bishops of the United States are moving from theoretical reflection on artificial intelligence toward institutional action. The USCCB has created a Bishops’ Task Force on Preserving Human Dignity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, chaired by Bishop Oscar Cantú of San Jose, after direct discussions with technology specialists and representatives of major companies. More than a dozen bishops subsequently went to Capitol Hill to advocate meaningful safeguards for AI and stronger protections for children online. The initiative raises a significant question for American Catholicism: can the Church become a credible moral participant in technological governance without presenting itself either as hostile to innovation or naively confident in the promises of Silic...

  Vue des États-Unis, la visite française a surtout raconté le paradoxe d’un pays réputé très sécularisé où le catholicisme semble soudain redevenir visible. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇺🇸 Summary American coverage of Pope Leo XIV’s journey to France was largely organised around a striking paradox. France was repeatedly presented as one of the most secularised societies in the Western world, governed by a rigorous tradition of laïcité , while simultaneously witnessing immense papal crowds and an unexpected increase in young Catholic converts. General-interest media concentrated on the tension between Catholic heritage and secular republican culture, the abuse crisis and France’s bioethical choices. Catholic publications paid particular attention to young converts, missionary renewal and the challenge of transforming numerical enthusiasm into durable Christian communities. By the conclusion of the journey in Metz, several American outlets had also begun to portray Leo XIV less as...

  Béatifié le 24 septembre à Saint-Louis, l’évêque le plus célèbre de la télévision catholique américaine revient au premier plan au moment où l’Église cherche comment évangéliser dans l’univers des réseaux sociaux ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇺🇸 Summary Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was beatified in Saint Louis on 24 September 2026, during a celebration presided over by Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle on behalf of Pope Leo XIV. More than a nostalgic tribute to a celebrated television personality, the beatification presented Sheen as a missionary whose modernity consisted in mastering the communications media of his time without permitting those media to dictate the substance of his message. His example is particularly significant in an age dominated by YouTube, podcasts, TikTok and artificial intelligence. Sheen suggests that Catholic evangelisation need not fear new technologies, provided that visibility never replaces contemplation, celebrity never replaces communion with Christ, and...

  Né en 1996 dans un quartier populaire de Chicago, l’étrange modèle jésuite est devenu un réseau national de 41 établissements. L’école catholique peut-elle être à la fois lieu de formation spirituelle et laboratoire d’insertion professionnelle ? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇺🇸 Summary Thirty years after its foundation in Chicago, Cristo Rey has become one of the most singular Catholic educational experiments in the United States. Students from families of limited economic resources combine rigorous secondary education with professional employment one day each week, and the revenues generated by this programme contribute substantially to the financing of their schooling. The original Jesuit institution has generated a national network of 41 Catholic schools and more than 3,500 corporate partnerships. Its success nevertheless raises a characteristically American question: can a Catholic school simultaneously cultivate intellectual formation, spiritual identity and social mobility...

À Little Italy, le 19 septembre transforme depuis un siècle une dévotion napolitaine en mémoire catholique américaine Chapeau court : Saint Janvier n’a évidemment jamais mis les pieds à New York. Pourtant, chaque mois de septembre, son nom envahit Mulberry Street. En 2026, la Feast of San Gennaro célèbre sa centième édition : un extraordinaire exemple de transplantation d’une dévotion européenne dans la géographie religieuse des États-Unis.

  À Emmitsburg, autour du sanctuaire de la première sainte née aux États-Unis, des dizaines de causes de canonisation viennent de rappeler que la sainteté américaine ne se résume plus à quelques figures isolées Évangile du jour Lc 8, 1-3 : « Jésus passait à travers villes et villages, proclamant et annonçant la Bonne Nouvelle du règne de Dieu. » L’Évangile du 18 septembre montre quelque chose de très simple : la sainteté chrétienne commence par suivre le Christ. Les Douze sont là, mais aussi Marie Madeleine, Jeanne, Suzanne et « beaucoup d’autres ». Le cercle est déjà plus vaste que les quelques noms que l’histoire a retenus. C’est précisément l’intuition qui se dégage de l’événement Saints on Their Way , organisé les 12 et 13 septembre 2026 au National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, à Emmitsburg dans le Maryland. L’Amérique catholique connaît ses grands noms. Elle commence aussi à redécouvrir toute une foule de témoins beaucoup moins célèbres. Summary in Latinate English Am...

  De sainte Kateri Tekakwitha à Nicholas Black Elk, l’histoire catholique autochtone oblige l’Église américaine à tenir ensemble mission, assimilation, blessures historiques et inculturation 🇺🇸 Summary Native American Catholicism cannot be reduced either to missionary oppression or to an uncomplicated narrative of evangelisation. Indigenous Catholics have received and transmitted the Christian faith while also experiencing colonisation, forced assimilation, boarding-school policies and cultural contempt. The contemporary Catholic Church increasingly acknowledges this double history. Saint Kateri Tekakwitha , the Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk , Indigenous Catholic organisations and the recovery of Native languages demonstrate that Native Catholics are not merely objects of missionary history. They are actors, leaders and interpreters of Catholic faith in their own right. Article Peut-on être pleinement amérindien et pleinement catholique ? Une polémique récente dans la réserve...

  Baptêmes, cours remplis, conférences thomistes et retour des grandes questions : sur l’un des campus les plus prestigieux d’Amérique, le catholicisme semble susciter une curiosité inattendue 🇺🇸 Summary Catholicism appears to be experiencing a renewed intellectual and spiritual visibility at Yale University. A recent testimony from an undergraduate describes crowded courses on Catholic intellectual tradition, growing attendance at lectures and nearly forty members of the university community entering the Church at the last Easter Vigil. This local phenomenon must not be exaggerated into a national religious revival, yet it corresponds with broader signs of Catholic mobilisation among young Americans, including the record attendance of SEEK 2026. The central question is therefore not whether America is becoming Catholic, but why an ancient religious tradition can once again appear intellectually novel to a highly educated generation. Le catholicisme là où on ne l'attendait plus Y...