Understanding AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Wednesday, September 23
Sacred Heart Church Social Hall—1000 Eliot
(near Eastern Market).

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is a significant new development in the ongoing human effort to make the world a better place. But just what is AI? Will it become more of a help, or more of a hindrance?

At our next Elephants Meeting Brendan Newell and Father Dave Buersmeyer will address these questions.

Brendan Newell is the Principal Technological Assistant at the Microsoft Innovation Hub. He recently gave a well-received presentation on AI at an archdiocesan gathering for priests. He has agreed to give us a similar presentation.


After a brief break, he will be followed by Fr. Dave Buersmeyer, who will give us an analysis of Pope Leo XIV's recent Encyclical concerning AI, Magnifica Humanitatis.'

As usual, a free wil offering will be taken to cover costs, For directions to Sacred Heart, 1000 Eliot">use this link.

If you would like a light lunch beforehand, (Noon–1 pm) please contatc Tom Lumpkin at (313) 265&049;7271, or email him at lumpkinthomas4433@gmail.com, so he will know how much food to provide.

Brenna Davis:
Reflections on Creation Spirituality
Tuesday, May 5th, 1–3:30 pm
St. Blase Social Hall
12151 15 Mile Rd, Sterling Heights, MI 48312

In our time, concern for the environment has become a serious moral issue, which in turn has led to an awakening in our spiritual life nd practices. Here is and invitation and opportunity to embrace a “Creation Spirituality” that invites a care for God’s creation to be an integral part of our everyday outlooks and practices.

Brenna Davis is currently the Director of Integral Ecology for the Ignatian Spiritual Network. She coes to us highly recommended, and is well qualified to offer helpful reflections on this topic.

As usual, a free will offering will be taken up to cover costs. If you would like to have a light lunch beforehand (12 Noon to 1 pm), please contact Tom Lumpkin at (313) -7271, or via email at lumpkinthomas433@gmail.com

Women's Participation in the Catholic Church

Ellie Hidalgo
March 11, 2026 at Our Lady of Fatima Church, Oak Park, MI

Ellie Hildago presented her reflections on Paragraph 60: Women’s Participation in the Church, Paragraph 60 as part of the final document produced by the recently concluded worldwide Synod on Synodality that involved thousands of Catholics from every spectrum of Church life. She also considered the newly-published Paragraph 73, which deals with the Diaconate. Ellie Hidalgo is co-director of Discerning Deacons, aa project that engages Catholics in active discernment on the place of women in the ordained diaconate. She previously spoke at an Elephants’ forum on “Restoring Catholic Women to the Permanent Diaconate.”

The Transcript of this Forum will be available in early April.