What does it mean to be human in the world of AI? Why should we recognize that every human being has equal value? What does Catholic Social Teaching have to do with this? In the inaugural Fully Human show episode, speaker, Substack bestseller, and Penguin Random House author Eliza Monts shares her “pro-human manifesto” of what the Catholic Church teaches about the inherent worth of every single human being alive.

00:00 Industrial Revolution Misery

00:41 Rerum Novarum Begins

01:36 Romanticism Then and Now

02:51 Welcome to Fully Human

03:45 Why This Podcast Exists

05:46 Episode Roadmap

07:16 State of the Union 2026

10:46 Attacks on Human Dignity

12:28 AI and Human Worth

13:11 Why Humans Matter

15:11 Imago Dei and Pope Leo

19:04 Fully Human Manifesto

21:27 Seamless Garment Teaching

23:19 Reading the AI Encyclical

25:38 Romans Benediction Outro

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Eliza Monts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7JQzX1pCVaXOhKuNIp3hzR

Eliza Monts on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fully-human-with-eliza-monts/id6812877101

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