This month’s blog is written by Henry Ellis, who is currently cycling from London to South Africa to raise funds for Network for Africa. Nine months ago, I left South London on my bike. Since then I’ve crossed Europe, North Africa and much of West Africa, while raising money for Network for Africa, and Mind […]

Several Hollywood films (Independence Day in 1996, The Avengers in 2012) suggest that an alien invasion would bring humanity together, with belligerent nations and blood-thirsty insurgents putting feuds to one side. Let’s hope that would be the case. But in the meantime, the need for Network for Africa’s work will continue because, sadly, the dark […]

The media is filled with alarming predictions about Artificial Intelligence, leading many of us to dread the prospect of a world in which human interaction and judgment is replaced by computers. Perhaps we should take comfort from the words of Pope Leo’s recently published Magnifica Humanitas: So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not […]