VaticanNews portal reports on May 17, 2026, that the usurper Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) marked the 60th World Day of Social Communications with a Regina Caeli appeal and a January 24 message titled “Preserving Human Voices and Faces,” in which he encouraged Catholics to direct technological innovation—particularly artificial intelligence—toward “the truth of the human person,” warning that AI systems “encroach upon the deepest level of communication, that of human relationships” by simulating voices, faces, and emotions. He called for “digital literacy,” “humanistic and cultural education,” and urged people to “cherish the gift of communication as the deepest truth of humanity.” The entire framework is a masterclass in naturalistic humanism masquerading as pastoral concern, utterly silent on the supernatural order, the salvation of souls, and the exclusive kingship of Jesus Christ over all spheres of human endeavor—including technology.
The Absence of Christ the King in the Digital Age
The most damning feature of Leo XIV’s message is not what it says, but what it systematically omits. The word “Christ” appears nowhere in the quoted excerpts as the foundation of communication. The phrase “truth of the human person” is repeated like a mantra, yet there is no mention of the One who said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life” (John 14:6). Pius XI, in Quas Primas, established with crystalline clarity that Christ’s kingdom “encompasses all men” and that “men united in societies are no less subject to the authority of Christ than individuals.” He further declared that “the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” whose happiness derives from Christ alone. The usurper’s message reduces communication to a horizontal, anthropological plane—a question of “human relationships” and “encountering others”—while the vertical dimension, the ordering of all human activity toward God and eternal salvation, is entirely effaced.
This is not an oversight. It is the systematic theology of the conciliar sect. When Paul VI promulgated Inter Mirifica (1963), the Vatican II decree on social communications, he inaugurated precisely this naturalistic framework: media as a tool for “progress,” “dialogue,” and “human development,” stripped of any binding obligation to submit to the Magisterium or to propagate the Faith. The usurper’s message is the fruit of that poisoned tree. The Church’s teaching, by contrast, has always insisted that ordo est amoris—the order of things is the order of love—and that all communication, like all human action, must be ordered toward the glory of God and the salvation of souls, not toward the vague “truth of the human person” as defined by secular anthropology.
“Truth of the Human Person”—A Modernist Slogan
The phrase “truth of the human person” deserves particular scrutiny. In authentic Catholic theology, the truth of the human person is defined by our creation in the image and likeness of God (imago Dei), our fallen nature, our redemption through the Precious Blood of Christ, and our ultimate end: the Beatific Vision. The Church has always taught, as the Council of Trent affirmed, that man is justified not by his own powers but by the grace of Christ merited on Calvary, and that without sanctifying grace, the soul is in a state of spiritual death.
The usurper’s invocation of this phrase, however, carries no such supernatural content. It is deployed in the context of artificial intelligence, “digital literacy,” and “algorithms”—purely naturalistic categories. The “truth of the human person” here means nothing more than the secular humanist’s dignity of man, autonomous from God, self-defining, and self-justifying. This is precisely the error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 3: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil; it is law to itself.” And Proposition 58: “No other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter, and all the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means, and the gratification of pleasure.”
The usurper’s framework is not merely incomplete; it is positively heretical in its implications. By reducing the crisis of artificial intelligence to a question of “preserving human voices and faces” and “encountering others,” he implicitly denies that the gravest crisis facing humanity is the state of original sin, the loss of the Faith, and the modernist apostasy that has consumed the very structures occupying the Vatican. St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), identified Modernism as “the synthesis of all heresies” precisely because it subjected the supernatural to the natural, the divine to the human, and the immutable deposit of faith to the evolution of “consciousness.” The usurper’s message is a textbook application of this modernist method to the digital sphere.
The Real Threat: Not AI, But Apostasy Within
The usurper warns that AI systems “not only interfere with information ecosystems, but also encroach upon the deepest level of communication, that of human relationships.” He claims that “the real threat to humanity is our willingness to offload our ability to listen and think critically to AI and social-media algorithms.” This is a spectacular act of misdirection.
The real threat to humanity is not artificial intelligence. It is the systematic destruction of the Faith by the very men who occupy the highest positions in the structures that claim to represent the Church. The real threat is the Novus Ordo Missae, which reduced the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to a communal meal, thereby depriving the faithful of the primary source of sanctifying grace. The real threat is the Vatican II declaration Dignitatis Humanae, which proclaimed the heresy of religious liberty—directly contradicting Pius IX’s condemnation of the proposition that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Syllabus, Proposition 15). The real threat is the ecumenism that treats heretical and schismatic sects as possessing elements of sanctification, thereby denying the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus.
The usurper’s message is structurally identical to the Fatima deception analyzed in the provided documents: it focuses on an external, technological threat (AI) while omitting the far greater internal threat—the modernist apostasy that has emptied the churches, corrupted the seminaries, and led countless souls to perdition. St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu against precisely this kind of error: the proposition that “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (Proposition 63). The usurper does not defend evangelical ethics; he accommodates modern progress.
Digital Literacy Without the Light of Faith
The usurper calls for “digital literacy, along with humanistic and cultural education, to understand how algorithms shape our perception of reality, how AI biases work, what mechanisms determine the presence of certain content in our feeds, what the economic principles and models of the AI economy are and how they might change.” This is the language of secular technocracy, not of the Catholic Church.
The Church has always taught that education must be ordered toward the knowledge and love of God. The Council of Trent mandated that seminaries form priests in sound doctrine and purity of morals. The Syllabus of Errors condemned the proposition that “the entire government of public schools… may and ought to appertain to the civil power” and that education should be “freed from all ecclesiastical authority, control and interference” (Proposition 47). The usurper’s call for “humanistic and cultural education” without any reference to the necessity of Catholic formation, the teaching of the Faith, and the guidance of the Magisterium is a capitulation to the very laicism that Pius XI condemned in Quas Primas as “the plague that poisons human society.”
Moreover, the usurper’s call to “understand how algorithms shape our perception of reality” is profoundly ironic coming from the head of an institution that has spent six decades shaping perception through its own algorithms of disinformation: the systematic concealment of the Third Secret of Fatima, the suppression of the traditional liturgy, the promotion of heretical “bishops” and “cardinals,” and the relentless propaganda of the Dicastery for Communication (the very organ that published this article). The conciar sect’s information ecosystem is itself the most sophisticated algorithm of deception ever deployed against the faithful.
The Sacredness of Faces and Faces Without Sanctifying Grace
The usurper declares that “faces and voices are sacred, since God created human beings in His image and likeness.” This statement, while superficially orthodox, is deployed in a context that strips it of all supernatural meaning. In Catholic theology, the sacredness of the human person derives not merely from creation but from redemption: “You were redeemed not with corruptible gold or silver… but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1 Peter 1:18-19, quoted by Pius XI in Quas Primas). The human person is sacred because Christ died for him, because he is called to the Beatific Vision, and because his soul is either in the state of sanctifying grace or in the state of mortal sin.
The usurper’s message contains no mention of grace, sin, redemption, or the supernatural destiny of the human person. His “sacredness” is a naturalistic sacredness—the sacredness of secular humanism, which worships man as he is, fallen and unredeemed, rather than as he is called to be: a saint, a temple of the Holy Ghost, a citizen of the Kingdom of Christ. This is the “cult of man” that the Church has always condemned. As Pius IX taught, “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” only when society is defined apart from God—and the usurper’s vision of society, communication, and technology is precisely a society defined apart from God.
The Dicastery for Communication: A Ministry of Disinformation
It is necessary to identify the organ through which this message was disseminated: the Dicastery for Communication. This institution, a creation of the post-conciliar restructuring, serves as the propaganda arm of the conciliar sect. Its function is not to proclaim the Gospel, defend the Faith, or teach Catholic doctrine, but to manage the “narrative” of the structures occupying the Vatican in accordance with the principles of modern public relations.
The very existence of such a dicastery is an indictment. The true Church has no need of a “Dicastery for Communication” because her communication is the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the teaching of the Magisterium—all of which are ordered toward eternal salvation, not toward “digital literacy” or “understanding algorithms.” The creation of this dicastery reflects the conciliar sect’s fundamental self-understanding: it sees itself not as the Mystical Body of Christ but as a global media organization competing for market share in the attention economy.
Conclusion: The Yoke Is Not Easy When the Burden Is Modernism
Pius XI concluded Quas Primas with the prayer that “all of us, who by the merciful Providence of God are His household, may bear this yoke not sluggishly, but zealously, willingly, and holy: and when our life is conformed to the laws of the Divine Kingdom, we shall rejoice heartily in the abundance of salutary effects.” The usurper Leo XIV, by contrast, offers not the sweet yoke of Christ but the burdensome yoke of secular technocracy—a yoke of “digital literacy,” “algorithm awareness,” and “humanistic education” that leads not to eternal happiness but to the further enslavement of the human mind to the princes of this world.
The faithful must reject this message entirely. Not because technology is inherently evil—it is not—but because the framework in which it is presented is a framework of naturalistic humanism that excludes Christ the King, denies the supernatural order, and serves the interests of the modernist apostasy. The true “preservation of human voices and faces” consists not in regulating artificial intelligence but in restoring the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations, and submitting every sphere of human activity—including communication and technology—to the sovereign reign of Christ the King. Non est regnum Dei, nisi per Christum—there is no Kingdom of God except through Christ.
Source:
Pope: Communication must respect truth of human person (vaticannews.va)
Date: 17.05.2026