Article from VaticanNews portal (May 5, 2026) reports on Sister Raffaella Petrini’s keynote address at a high-level discussion on “AI and the Future of Work” held at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University. The event, co-sponsored by multiple foreign embassies and academic institutions, brought together technology creators, theologians, ethicists, and policymakers to discuss artificial intelligence’s impact on labor. Sr. Petrini insisted that “the future of work does not lie in machines, but in the moral decisions of humanity,” while various speakers emphasized human dignity, ethical regulation, and the need for international cooperation. The article reveals yet another instance of the post-conciliar sect positioning itself as a partner in worldly governance while remaining utterly silent on the only question that truly matters: the obligation of all nations and all human endeavors — including technology — to submit to the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Abomination of Desolation Disguised as Ethical Discourse
The event described in the article — a conference on artificial intelligence co-sponsored by the U.S., Australian, British, Canadian, Japanese, and Taiwanese embassies to the Holy See, alongside Georgetown University and various Catholic-sounding institutes — is not a Catholic event. It is a gathering of worldly powers under the veneer of Catholic social terminology, hosted in a building that once belonged to the Church but now serves as a platform for the conciliar revolution’s project of “dialogue with the world.” The Pontifical Gregorian University, once a bastion of Thomistic orthodoxy, has for decades been a nursery of modernist heterodoxy, and the fact that it now hosts conferences on artificial intelligence in partnership with foreign governments and secular institutions is merely the logical terminus of its decades-long apostasy.
The opening remarks by Father Mark Lewis, Rector of the Gregorian, who stated that “ethical values should be considered in how artificial intelligence is employed,” and that “it now falls to us” to determine how to prepare students, reveal the anthropocentric framework that pervades every utterance of the neo-clergy. It now falls to us — to whom? Not to the Church teaching with the authority of Christ, not to the immutable Magisterium, not to the Fathers and Doctors who defined the faith once delivered to the saints. To us — to the conciliar establishment, to the academic bureaucracy, to men who have abandoned the supernatural order and now presume to legislate for humanity on purely naturalistic grounds. This is the language of the Abomination of Desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15), speaking as though it had authority over the things of God while serving only the things of Caesar.
Sr. Petrini and the Religion of “Human Dignity” Without God
Sister Raffaella Petrini, identified as “President of the Governorate of Vatican City State,” delivered the keynote address. Let us be precise: she holds a title in the administrative apparatus of the Vatican City State — a geopolitical entity created by the Lateran Pacts of 1929, which, whatever its legal status, is now controlled by the conciar sect. Her moral authority is none. Her theological competence, as we shall see, is that of naturalistic humanitarianism dressed in ecclesiastical vocabulary.
Sr. Petrini stated: “Ultimately, the future lies not in machines, but in the moral choices of humanity.” This sentence, repeated twice in the article as though it were a profound revelation, is in fact a platitude — and a dangerous one. It places the destiny of humanity in “moral choices” abstracted from any reference to divine law, the Ten Commandments, the sacramental system, the necessity of grace, or the reality of sin. It is the morality of the French Revolution baptized with a sprinkling of ecclesiastical language. Where in Sr. Petrini’s address is there any mention that the moral choices of humanity are only good when conformed to the law of God as taught by the Catholic Church? Where is the acknowledgment that without sanctifying grace, without the sacraments, without faith in Christ the King, all human “moral choices” are incapable of attaining their supernatural end? Without Me, you can do nothing (John 15:5).
She further stated: “Work enables a person to fulfill his or her calling as a human being.” This is a half-truth that conceals a fundamental error. The Catholic teaching — the unchanging Catholic teaching — is that work is a consequence of original sin (Gen. 3:17-19), that it is a punishment and a remedy, and that man’s true calling is not to “fulfill his humanity” through labor but to know, love, and serve God in this life and to be happy with Him forever in the next. The fulfillment of man’s calling is sanctifying grace, the beatific vision, and the worship of the one true God in the true religion. Leo XIII, in Rerum Novarum, taught that the first and most fundamental obligation of the worker is to fulfill his religious duties — to keep holy the Lord’s Day, to attend Mass, to receive the sacraments. The conciliar sect has systematically inverted this order, making “human fulfillment” the end and reducing religion to one value among many in a pluralistic framework.
The ILO and the Worship of Worldly Solutions
The article notes that Sr. Petrini cited the International Labour Organization’s report on “Revolutionizing health and safety: The role of AI and digitalization at work,” acknowledging that automation can reduce workplace hazards while warning of “excessive surveillance, work intensification, and physical and psychosocial challenges.” She further recalled that the ILO called “for a proactive, evidence-informed, and participatory approach to mitigate such risks.”
Let the reader pause and consider: the representative of what claims to be the Catholic Church at an event co-sponsored by foreign governments cites the International Labour Organization — a body founded in 1919 as part of the League of Nations, an institution of the modernist, secular, internationalist order condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium — as an authority on the future of work. Where is the citation of Rerum Novarum? Where is the citation of Quadragesimo Anno? Where is the citation of any papal document that addresses the condition of workers from the standpoint of Catholic doctrine? The answer is that these documents, while perhaps paying lip service to “Catholic social teaching,” are systematically emptied of their supernatural content and reduced to naturalistic humanitarianism by the conciliar establishment. Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno explicitly condemned the very internationalist, secular framework that the ILO represents, warning that such organizations, when divorced from Catholic principles, become instruments of collectivism and tyranny.
Taiwan, the United States, and the “Catholic” Umbrella
The article mentions that Anthony CY Ho, Taiwan Ambassador to the Holy See, presented a “Global Cooperation and Training Framework” and stated: “As Pope Leo says: AI must serve humanity, not the way around.”
This reference to “Pope Leo” — meaning the current antipope, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) — is treated in the article as though it carried doctrinal weight. It does not. An antipope — a manifest heretic who has usurped the See of Peter — cannot teach, cannot bind, and cannot loose. His words on artificial intelligence carry no more authority than those of any other worldly dignitary. The sedevacantist position, grounded in the theology of St. Robert Bellarmine, Wernz and Vidal, John of St. Thomas, and the 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4), is clear: a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction and cannot be the head of the Church. The references provided in the source documents confirm this beyond any shadow of doubt.
That the Taiwanese ambassador — representing a government whose very existence is a product of the communist revolution in China, a revolution that has persecuted and murdered countless Catholics — is invited to speak at a “Catholic” university under the auspices of the Vatican Governorate, and that his remarks are treated with reverence, is a scandal that would have been inconceivable before the conciliar revolution. The Church of Christ does not co-sponsor events with the enemies of Christ. The Church of Christ does not seek “global cooperation” with regimes that martyr her faithful. The Church of Christ teaches, governs, and sanctifies — and she does so with the authority of her Divine Founder, not with the approval of the United Nations system or its subsidiary bodies.
U.S. Ambassador Brian Burch called AI “a defining issue of our time” and spoke of “a shared responsibility,” while George Osborne of OpenAI — a representative of one of the most powerful and ideologically driven technology corporations in the world — was given the closing keynote. The Church, in her true form, does not give closing keynotes to the architects of systems that threaten to further enslave humanity to materialism and technological tyranny. The Church warns. The Church condemns. The Church calls to repentance. She does not “partner” with the world in shaping a future that excludes Christ the King.
Fr. Benanti and the Theology of “Flourishing” Without Grace
Father Paolo Benanti of the Gregorian University, described as an “expert on the phenomenon,” explored what the article calls “A Theological View: The Flourishing Worker and the Dignity of Work.” He reportedly recalled that “Christian principles emphasize that a person is defined by who they are, not what they produce,” and that “we are not meant to refuse technology, but see it as a supplement.”
This is the language of the conciar sect’s “theology of work” — a theology that has been systematically detached from the supernatural order. The Catholic teaching on work is not that a person is “defined by who they are” in some abstract, existentialist sense. The Catholic teaching is that a person is defined by his relationship to God — that he is a creature made in the image and likeness of God, that he has fallen through original sin, that he is redeemed by the Blood of Christ, and that he is called to supernatural union with God through grace. “Who they are” is either a child of God in the state of sanctifying grace or a child of wrath in the state of mortal sin. There is no third option. The conciliar sect’s language of “flourishing” and “dignity” without reference to grace, sin, the sacraments, and the last things is not Catholic theology — it is the naturalistic humanism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (propositions 56-58) and by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis.
The assertion that “we are not meant to refuse technology, but see it as a supplement” is particularly revealing. The Church has never taught that technology is morally neutral and merely requires “ethical guidance.” The Church has taught that all human activity — including technological development — must be ordered toward the glory of God and the salvation of souls. When technology becomes an end in itself, when it is developed and deployed without reference to divine law, when it serves the interests of power and profit rather than the common good as defined by Catholic doctrine, it becomes an instrument of injustice and oppression. The conciliar sect, by refusing to make these judgments — by refusing to condemn what must be condemned and to command what must be commanded — has abdicated its mission and become a chaplain to the world.
The Omission That Condemns: Christ the King Is Absent
The most damning feature of this article — and of the event it describes — is not what it says, but what it does not say. Nowhere in the entire report is there any mention of the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ. Nowhere is there any acknowledgment that all human societies, all governments, all institutions — including those developing and deploying artificial intelligence — are bound by the law of Christ the King. Nowhere is there any reference to the teaching of Pius XI in Quas Primas:
“His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.”
Pius XI further taught: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.”
The event described in the article — co-sponsored by foreign governments, addressed by ambassadors, featuring representatives of OpenAI — is precisely the kind of gathering that Pius XI warned against: a gathering of the world’s powers that excludes Christ the King, that operates on purely naturalistic principles, and that treats “ethics” and “human dignity” as self-sufficient categories independent of divine law. The conciliar sect’s participation in such events is not “engagement with the world” — it is apostasy. It is the abandonment of the Church’s divine mission to teach all nations and to subject all things to Christ.
The Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
As the instructions dictate, silence about supernatural matters — the sacraments, the state of grace, the final judgment — is the gravest accusation. This article and the event it describes are entirely silent on these matters. There is no mention of the necessity of baptism. There is no mention of the sacraments as the ordinary means of grace. There is no mention of the reality of sin — original or actual. There is no mention of the final judgment, when Christ will render to each according to his works. There is no mention of the possibility that the development and deployment of artificial intelligence, if divorced from divine law, could become an instrument of the Antichrist. There is no mention of the duty of Catholics to resist the encroachments of secularism and naturalism in every field of human endeavor.
Instead, we are offered “moral choices of humanity,” “shared responsibility,” “human dignity,” and “ethical values” — the vocabulary of the United Nations, of the World Economic Forum, of the globalist project that the pre-conciliar Popes consistently condemned. Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (proposition 80). The event described in the article is precisely such a reconciliation — a coming to terms with the world on the world’s terms, using the world’s vocabulary, and serving the world’s ends.
The Symptomatic Level: This Is What the Conciliar Revolution Produces
Every element of this article — the participants, the sponsors, the language, the omissions — is a fruit of the conciliar revolution. The Second Vatican Council’s declaration Dignitatis Humanae on religious freedom, which contradicted the consistent teaching of the Magisterium from Gregory XVI to Pius XII, opened the door to the “dialogue with the world” that now characterizes every utterance of the conciliar sect. The post-conciliar “opening to the world” has reached its logical conclusion: the Vatican Governorate co-sponsoring a technology conference with foreign governments and a corporation (OpenAI) whose products are designed to further entrench the technological tyranny of the globalist order.
The “Catholic Institute of Technology” and the “Leonium Institute for AI & Emerging Technology” — whatever their legal status — are products of this conciliar mentality. They represent the attempt to baptize the technological revolution, to put a Catholic face on developments that, if not subjected to the law of Christ the King, will serve the destruction of the human person and the further marginalization of the true faith. The Church does not need “institutes for AI.” The Church needs the restoration of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the preaching of the integral Catholic faith, the administration of the sacraments, and the uncompromising proclamation that Jesus Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords, and that every nation, every institution, and every human endeavor must submit to His authority.
Conclusion: The Neo-Church Has Nothing to Say Because It Has Abandoned the Truth
The article from VaticanNews portal is a perfect specimen of the conciliar sect’s discourse: outwardly Catholic in vocabulary, inwardly naturalistic in substance, and entirely devoid of the supernatural content that alone makes the Church’s teaching salvific. Sr. Petrini’s insistence that “the future lies not in machines, but in the moral choices of humanity” is true only in the most trivial sense — and false in every sense that matters. The future lies not in “moral choices” but in the grace of God, merited by the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, communicated through the sacraments of the true Church, and received by those who are in the state of sanctifying grace and who persevere therein until death.
The conciliar sect, having abandoned the true Mass, having emptied the sacraments of their supernatural efficacy, having embraced religious liberty and ecumenism, and having subjected itself to the world it was once commissioned to convert, has nothing of substance to offer. It can parrot the language of “ethics” and “dignity.” It can co-sponsor conferences with foreign governments. It can cite the ILO and OpenAI. But it cannot save souls, because it has abandoned the only means by which souls are saved: the integral Catholic faith, the true sacraments, and the uncompromising proclamation of the Kingship of Jesus Christ over all nations and all human endeavors.
We must not fear AI, but not simply accept it blindly, said Sr. Petrini. We say: we must not fear the world, but we must not accept it at all. We must resist it, convert it, or be willing to die as martyrs rather than compromise with it. This is the teaching of the Catholic Church — the true Church, which endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and who refuse to bow before the idols of the conciliar revolution.
Source:
Sr. Petrini: 'Future of work doesn't lie in machines, but in humanity's moral decisions' (vaticannews.va)
Date: 05.05.2026