Neo-Church’s AI Ethics Mask Naturalist Apostasy
EWTN News portal (January 27, 2026) reports on a message from the antipope Robert Prevost (styled “Pope Leo XIV”) concerning artificial intelligence. The text claims human voices and faces are “sacred” while advocating for “responsibility, cooperation, and education” in digital technology development. The message entirely omits the sovereignty of Christ the King over human inventions and reduces morality to anthropological concerns divorced from divine law.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Order
The message declares that “faces and voices are sacred” yet provides no theological foundation for this claim beyond sentimental anthropology. Quas primas (1925) established that Christ’s kingship extends over “all peoples, tribes, and tongues” (Daniel 7:14), including technological developments. Pius XI condemned the very notion that human dignity exists independently of submission to divine authority: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority were destroyed” (§18). By reducing sacredness to biological traits while ignoring humanity’s imago Dei, the message embodies the condemned modernist error that “revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Lamentabili 20).
“The challenge posed by AI is not technological, but anthropological.”
This statement exposes the neo-church’s radical anthropocentrism. The Syllabus of Errors condemns those who place “human reason… as the sole arbiter of truth” (III). True Catholic teaching holds that all challenges—including technological ones—are theological at root, demanding evaluation under Christ’s eternal law. The silence regarding Original Sin’s corruption of human intellect reveals a Pelagian confidence in unaided human “responsibility.”
Omission of Christ’s Kingship as Governing Principle
Prevost’s call for “discernment and governance” of AI lacks any reference to the Social Reign of Christ the King. Pius XI’s Quas primas mandates that rulers must “fulfill their duty themselves and with their people” by obeying Christ’s authority (§19). The message’s proposed “alliance” with technology rejects this doctrine, implying autonomous human governance suffices. Such secularism directly violates Quas primas: “When men… renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior… human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation” (§18).
Relativism Disguised as “Education”
The message’s third pillar—“education”—demands “critical thinking skills” rather than formation in immutable truth. This echoes the condemned modernist belief that “truth changes with man” (Lamentabili 58). Pius X’s Pascendi exposed such “critical thinking” as code for undermining dogma: “Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine… called vital immanence” (§6). By prioritizing digital literacy over catechesis, the neo-church advances the conciliar revolution’s goal of replacing divine revelation with human experience.
Tacit Endorsement of Technological Idolatry
Prevost’s demand to label AI-generated content ignores the graver issue: using technology to simulate sacramental realities. The message warns that chatbots might become “hidden architects of our emotional states” yet remains silent about sacrilegious AI “liturgies” or algorithmic desecration of sacred art. Quas primas reminds us that Christ must reign over “the mind, will, heart, and body” (§32)—domains now invaded by neuromarketing and virtual sacraments. This omission confirms the conciliar sect’s capitulation to technocratic paganism.
Conclusion: Apostasy Wrapped in Bureaucratic Language
The message’s sterile vocabulary—“transparency,” “cooperation,” “public good”—betrays its bureaucratic atheism. Where Pius XI invoked “the sweet yoke of Christ” (§34), Prevost offers managerial platitudes. This exemplifies Vatican II’s embrace of “dialogue” with the world—a condemned error (Syllabus 80). True shepherds would demand AI’s submission to Christ’s crown, not propose “alliances” with His enemies. As Quas primas warns: “When the Roman Pontiff can reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization… he abandons divine authority” (cf. Syllabus 80).
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: Human voices and faces are sacred; AI requires education and responsibility (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.01.2026