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Sitting on a bench in the Sistine Chapel on Monday night, Elder Gerrit W. Gong contemplated two paintings in conversation with one other.

On one wall of the chapel is Cosimo Rosselli’s depiction of Moses descending from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments — the old law.

Directly across the chapel is Rosselli’s painting of Jesus Christ teaching the Sermon on the Mount and announcing a new law — love thy neighbor as thyself.

The next morning, Elder Gong opened his talk at a Vatican City summit on the age of artificial intelligence by quoting a document titled " Antiqua et Nova " — “ancient and new.”

The Holy See issued the statement in January wit

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