“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 51 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 51, New England, in “The Mind and the Machine,” a new, 10-part video podcast series on artificial intelligence.
“My suffering is visible to anyone who meets me, but pain wears many faces,” says Franz Wall (’16), survivor of a life-altering accident, in the introduction to his new memoir, Pushing Through the Pain.
The St. Thomas More Society of Orange County has presented its 2025 Attorney of the Year award to a 51 alumnus: Justin Alvarez (’97).
Ten 51 alumni attended the Napa Institute’s 2025 recent Faith and Business Conference to get a better sense of the role artificial intelligence is taking in the workplace and consider its use from a Catholic perspective.