RIVERDALE, N.Y. — Manhattan University will welcome Fr. Enzo Del Brocco, C.P., Ph.D., a Passionist priest, moral theologian, and President of Catholic Theological Union (CTU) in Chicago, for the next lecture in its ARCHtalk series. His talk, “Reclaiming Ourselves: The Magnificent Human in the Age of AI,” will take place on Monday, October 5, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Kelly Commons, Room 5.02 A/B, and is free and open to the public.

Fr. Del Brocco was ordained in 1996. He holds a doctorate in Catholic Healthcare Ethics from Duquesne University, awarded summa cum laude. He also holds a licentiate in moral theology from Rome’s Accademia Alfonsiana and a bioethics certification from the National Catholic Bioethics Center.

From 2014 to 2019, he served as a missionary in Haiti. Since then, he has been a COVID-19 hospital chaplain in the Bronx, advocated for Haitian causes at the United Nations, and taught ethics and human dignity at CTU. He writes regularly for the National Catholic Reporter and has appeared on CNN, EWTN, and NPR.

In May 2026, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on safeguarding human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence. The Riverdale community then called for a public forum on its themes, and this talk answers that call. Fr. Del Brocco will look at how AI should serve, rather than diminish, human dignity and work. These themes are central to Manhattan University’s identity as a Lasallian Catholic institution.

Marcy Peteroy-Kelly, Ph.D., Dean of the Kakos School of Arts and Sciences, stated, “ARCH gives our students technical fluency along with the ethical grounding to use it well. Fr. Del Brocco brings scholarship, pastoral experience, and moral clarity to one of the defining questions of our time: how we make sure AI serves the human person.”

The lecture is co-sponsored by the ARCH Innovation Exchange, the Office of Mission, Campus Ministry, the Dorothy Day Center, the Kakos School of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Religion and Philosophy. Learn more about this ARCHtalk and register to attend.

ARCH (Analytics, Research, Creativity, Humanity) is the University’s interdisciplinary framework for preparing students to lead responsibly in an AI-driven world. It pairs technical skill with the ethical grounding this talk explores.

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