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December 12, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Coming Great Shift: How AGI Will Change Everything—And Why the Church Must Wake Up

A hopeful guide for ordinary Catholics entering an extraordinary future.

Most people in the Church today still haven’t touched ChatGPT. They’ve heard the term “AI” floating around, but it feels distant—a tech fad, a Silicon Valley toy, a problem for someone else’s kids.

But something far bigger is emerging.

We are standing at the threshold of AGI—Artificial General Intelligence—a form of intelligence that doesn’t just answer questions, but can learn anything, adapt to anything, and outperform humans across every cognitive task.

This is not science fiction. This is not fearmongering. This is simply the world your children will inherit.

And the question before us is not whether this technology will arrive, but what kind of humans we will become as it does.

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