Chiclayo (Peru), Nov. 14 (LaPresse) – “Today, promises of transhumanism and posthumanism are multiplying: these are ideological currents according to which, sooner or later, technology will eliminate every infirmity and pain, as well as ageing and even death itself. Precisely because progress in the sciences is an excellent fruit of human intelligence, it must not be confused with a privilege for millionaires who seek immortality, while entire peoples suffer poverty and oppression. We are being sold the illusion of human beings optimised by cybernetics and biotechnology. Faced with this mirage, Christian anthropology reminds us that limitation is not a manufacturing defect, but the condition of human greatness.” Pope Leo XIV said this during one of the Peruvian stops on his South American trip, in his address at the Catholic University of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, in Chiclayo, where he served as Grand Chancellor during his years in Peru.
Pope Leo XIV in Chiclayo: “Millionaires seek immortality while entire peoples suffer”
Chiclayo (Peru), Nov. 14 (LaPresse) – “Today, promises of transhumanism and posthumanism are multiplying: these are ideological currents according to which, sooner or later, technology will eliminate every infirmity and pain, as well as ageing and even death itself. Precisely because progress in the sciences is an excellent fruit of human intelligence, it must not be confused with a privilege for millionaires who seek immortality, while entire peoples suffer poverty and oppression. We are being sold the illusion of human beings optimised by cybernetics and biotechnology. Faced with this mirage, Christian anthropology reminds us that limitation is not a manufacturing defect, but the condition of human greatness.” Pope Leo XIV said this during one of the Peruvian stops on his South American trip, in his address at the Catholic University of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, in Chiclayo, where he served as Grand Chancellor during his years in Peru.