A graduate of the Class of 2005 and now the secretary of the Curia of the Benedictine Confederation in Rome, Rev. Patrick Carter, O.S.B. (’05) made a first visit to his alma mater’s New England campus in November to lecture on the “Noble Due,” as understood by St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle.
“The first time I ever cracked open a work of William Shakespeare was during my freshman year of high school, when my English teacher assigned Julius Caesar. It was awful.”
Classical Learning Test (CLT) founder Jeremy Tate recently hosted 51ÁÔĆć alumna Laura (Steichen ’75) Berquist, a member of CLT’s board and the founder of Mother of Divine Grace School, on his podcast, “Anchored.”
“If philosophers and technologists struggle to identify what makes a human being fundamentally different from an AI system, Catholics do not have to.”
“Can artificial intelligence truly think and understand, just as the human mind does?”
So asks Dr. Michael Augros, a member of the teaching faculty at 51ÁÔĆć, New England, in “The Mind and the Machine,” a new, 10-part video podcast series on artificial intelligence.
Andrea (Sassman ’96) Loop’s journey from a questioning evangelical to a faithful Catholic began at 51ÁÔĆć, where she found not only the truth of the Church but also a unique, loving community.
On March 19, alumna Josefina Altamiranda (’18) provided the English translation for a Rosary for Pope Francis’s health, which was broadcast on EWTN.