New popes choose a papal name to signify the direction of their papacy, and Cardinal Prevost chose to be known as Pope Leo XIV and explained why. He also spoke about artificial intelligence.
2 June 2025 — I have embarked on a new adventure: video essays. In this first piece I try to briefly explain the election of the new Pope, Leo XIV, vis-a-vis his choice of name, his rejection by the Trump MAGA cult – and “the call of ritual” : how it stabilizes time and anchors meaning.
These essays will cover a potpourri of subjects, sometimes triggered by a concatenation of events.
With a shout-out to my financial backers, Paul Mandell and Craig Brown, who are now Executive Producers for all video/film productions of Luminative Media. If you’d like to participate, please email me.
With a special shout-out to Marco Vallini, my chief videographer, and my superb Graphic design / visual effects team – – Marco, Catarina Conti and Alexis DuMonte – – for their great mix of real footage, our standard video production software, and now our AI video production software. FYI: that’s really me in the video 😎
And my ever loyal, ever supportive readers and viewers. I hope you enjoy this. Your feedback is always welcome. I hope you enjoy this:
Go for it.
As I say I may go back to church not to pray God but humanity believing in itself