Philippine Bishops’ Naturalistic Reduction of Evangelization to Human Encounter
The “Catholic” Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) held a seminar on artificial intelligence during its January 20, 2026 plenary assembly, urging that AI “must serve human encounter, not replace it.” Executive Secretary Edwin López declared that “technology serves. Communion saves,” while “Archbishop” Rex Alarcon praised collaboration with EWTN Asia-Pacific for advancing “digital mission” in service of “the Church of the poor.” The event framed evangelization as fostering “authentic relationships” through technological tools, omitting all reference to the supernatural order. This emphasis on horizontal humanism exposes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Christ’s Kingship over creation.
Human-Centered Technocracy Replaces Supernatural Mission
The CBCP’s seminar reduces the Church’s divine mandate to a naturalistic project of social cohesion. López’s claim that “evangelization must always lead people to encounter, not automation” distorts the Great Commission, which commands baptismal regeneration (Matthew 28:19) and submission to Christ’s social reign (Pius XI, Quas Primas). By framing AI as a tool for “community-building,” the bishops tacitly endorse the modernist heresy that “the Church has no innate and legitimate right of acquiring and possessing property” (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, §26), instead reducing her to a facilitator of anthropocentric dialogue.
Alarcon’s gratitude for EWTN’s “rich media resources” underscores the neo-church’s betrayal. EWTN, while masquerading as orthodox, platforms theologians who deny extra Ecclesiam nulla salus and promote false ecumenism. This collaboration exemplifies the conciliar sect’s functional apostasy, treating grace as an afterthought to technological pragmatism.
Theological Omissions Reveal Apostate Foundations
Nowhere do the bishops mention:
1. The necessity of the sacraments for salvation, contrary to the Council of Trent (Session VII, Canon 4).
2. The Kingship of Christ over nations, condemned by the secularist silence of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes.
3. The demonic danger of AI as a potential tool for global surveillance and manipulation, fulfilling apocalyptic typology (Revelation 13:16-17).
López’s statement “God did not just send a message; he sent himself” superficially echoes John 1:14 but divorces the Incarnation from its soteriological purpose: to atone for sin through the Blood of the Cross (Colossians 1:20). The bishops’ fixation on “humanity” without reference to sanctifying grace echoes Rousseau’s natural religion, condemned by Pius IX as the belief that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Syllabus, §80).
Digital Syncretism and the Anti-Church
Alarcon’s celebration of COVID-19 as having “pushed us into the digital world” reveals the conciliar sect’s surrender to technocratic tyranny. The “digital mission” replaces the Mass—the unbloody renewal of Calvary—with algorithmic content delivery, reducing the Faith to data points. This aligns with Bergoglian synods demanding “listening” over teaching, a direct violation of Our Lord’s command: “Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).
When López insists “we do not need more technology; we need more humanity,” he inverts the hierarchy of ends. Humanity divorced from God becomes its own idol—precisely the “cult of man” denounced by St. Pius X as the essence of Modernism (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, §39). The true Church needs neither AI nor “encounter” workshops but the integral profession of Catholic dogma, without which technology accelerates Babylon’s ruin.
Source:
Philippine bishops: AI must serve human encounter, not replace it (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 28.01.2026