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The Bios Centre has produced an excellent toolkit on conscientious objection for medical practitioners. The full toolkit can be found on the Bios website after free registration. Some brief comments from and about the toolkit are provided in the rest of this blog post.
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Human Flourishing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Monday 26 October 2026; Waldegrave Drawing Room, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London.
Everyone is welcome to this conference on the rapid development of AI and the recent publication by Pope Leo XIV of the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas.
Cost: £25 (free for St. Mary’s University students and staff, and contributors to the programme)
The conference is kindly sponsored by the CCLA and the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics
The programme features a number of sessions with leading speakers from the field. See:
https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/events/2026/human-flourishing-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence
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Season of Creation: A Journey of Education and Ecological Conversion
Held to celebrate the Season of Creation, this webinar will explore various ways in which we can encourage a lifelong journey of formation, ecological conversion, and changes daily habits and actions which help us care for God’s creation. The event will be chaired by the lead bishop for the environment in England and Wales, Bishop John Arnold and include speakers who have worked in schools and parishes to encourage ecological conversion.
The event will take place on Thursday 1 October 6pm – 7pm and you can sign up at: Sign up here: via Zoom
This website is one of the fruits of the TWCF-sponsored project on freedom, globalisation, enterprise and civil society in 21st century Catholic social teaching. It is part of a range of initiatives that integrates the mission of St. Mary’s University with societal concerns. St. Mary’s research centres such as The Bakhita Centre for Slavery, Safety and Social Justice , the Thea Bowman Centre for Educational Research, the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion, Ethics and Society Benedict XVI Centre as well as The Centre for the Art of Living and Dying Well promote other aspects of the research work of the University in related fields. In addition, our collaboration with the Oxford-based Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics helps bridge the gap between academia and the general public.
