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  " Text with Jesus" AI - Casey Chalk at First Things Want to talk to the Son of God? There’s an app for that. 'Text With Jesus' , a Los Angeles based product that launched in July, replicates an instant messaging platform and features biblical figures impersonated by the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT. Among the characters available on the app are the Holy Family, the apostles, various prophets, Ruth, Job, and Abraham’s nephew Lot. Mary Magdalene is also available, but only to premium subscribers for $2.99 a month. You can even chat with Satan, who signs his texts with a “smiling face with horns” emoji. Perhaps such an app provokes fears of blasphemy. Not to worry: Stéphane Peter, the app’s developer and the company’s CEO, ensured that character responses always include a Bible verse. “Our AI always generates responses that are in line with the teachings of the Bible,” explains the website. He also invited unnamed “church leaders” to try the beta version o...

  Humanae vitae :  "Consequently, unless we are willing that the responsibility of procreating life should be left to the arbitrary decision of men, we must accept that there are certain limits, beyond which it is wrong to go, to the power of man over his own body and its natural functions - limits, let it be said, which no one, whether as a private individual or as a public authority, can lawfully exceed." This article in EuroNews caught HJ's eye: Uterus transplants are already a reality. What does it mean for transgender women getting pregnant? Medical experts talking publicly about allowing biological men to give birth might be racking their brains on the technical details, but they are already sold on the question of ethics. And even if they held doubts, the Equality Act would prevent surgeons from treating biological women and transgender women differently when deciding whether to conduct womb transplants. The appetite for the medical procedure is certainly there. ...