Who Counts as Fully Human? How Catholic Social Encyclicals Quietly Built the Moral Architecture of Modern Flourishing Moral History · Flourishing Who Counts as Fully Human? How Catholic Social Encyclicals Quietly Built the Moral Framework of Modern Flourishing Five popes. 135 years. One steadily widening answer to who counts as fully human. A short history of Catholic social teaching as it prepares to meet the age of artificial intelligence. VC Victor Counted, Ph.D. The Flourishing Journal · May 2026 On May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV will release his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on the protection of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence. He signed it ten…