EWTN News portal reports on May 25, 2026, that Robert Prevost, known as “Pope Leo XIV,” unveiled his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, in a ceremony at the Vatican’s Synod Hall. The event was attended by members of the Roman Curia, academics, diplomats, and notably Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, a major artificial intelligence company. The self-styled pontiff praised the inclusion of a non-believing tech executive as a “sign of hope” and emphasized the need for “dialogue” and “mutual effort” to address the challenges of AI. He compared the current technological transformation to the Industrial Revolution, suggesting it may have “even greater consequences.” The document, signed on May 15, the anniversary of Leo XIII’s *Rerum Novarum*, calls for AI to be “disarmed” and warns of its impact on warfare, healthcare, and employment. The event featured speeches by Cardinals Parolin, Fernández, and Czerny, as well as theologians Anna Rowlands and Leocadie Lushombo. This entire spectacle is a grotesque parody of Catholic teaching, replacing the supernatural order with a fetishization of technology and a desperate plea for relevance in a world hurtling towards the abyss.
The Synod of Technocrats: A Ceremony of Apostasy
The very staging of this event reveals the spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar sect. The “pope” did not merely address the faithful from the Chair of St. Peter; he held a press conference, a corporate product launch, in the Synod Hall—a building itself a monument to the modernist revolution. The audience was not the pilgrim people of God, but the “Roman Curia, representatives of academia, and the diplomatic corps.” This is the Church of the New Advent: a non-governmental organization among NGOs, seeking validation from the powerful and the intellectual elite.
The presence of Christopher Olah, a non-believer and co-founder of a company at the heart of the military-industrial-tech complex, is not an accident. It is the logical conclusion of the post-conciliar obsession with “dialogue” and “the world.” Robert Prevost’s statement, “What a great sign of hope it is that with our differences we can listen to one another,” is a direct repudiation of Our Lord’s command to be “wise as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matthew 10:16). It is the language of the United Nations, not the Catholic Church. The “hope” offered is not the theological virtue of hope, which rests on God’s promise of eternal salvation, but a secular, horizontal hope for a better-managed earthly city.
The Cult of Progress: From Rerum Novarum to Magnifica Vanitatis
The deliberate choice of May 15, the anniversary of Leo XIII’s *Rerum Novarum*, is an act of blasphemous mimicry. Leo XIII’s encyclical was a defense of the working class against the dehumanization of *laissez-faire* capitalism, grounded in the unchanging principles of natural law and the rights of God. It reaffirmed the duty of the state to recognize the true religion and the Church’s authority in temporal matters affecting the salvation of souls (cf. *Quas Primas*, Pius XI).
Robert Prevost’s *Magnifica Humanitas* is its antithesis. It does not deign to mention the rights of God, the Kingship of Christ, or the necessity of the true faith for social order. Instead, it fetishizes “technology” and “artificial intelligence” as the new demigods of history. The comparison of AI to the Industrial Revolution is not just banal; it is a symptom of a profound theological blindness. The Industrial Revolution’s evils were a result of the rejection of Christian social doctrine. The solution was not more technology, but a return to Christ the King. To propose “disarming” AI while ignoring the spiritual arms of prayer, penance, and the Most Holy Rosary is to fight phantoms while welcoming the devil.
The method described—”listening to scientists and engineers… political leaders… parents and teachers”—is the method of a sociologist, not a pope. Where is the “listening” to the Church Fathers? To the perennial Magisterium? To the cries of the martyrs and confessors? The “troubling voices” he hears are about “autonomous weapons” and “algorithms that can block access to healthcare.” These are temporal, material concerns. The truly troubling voice, the one he is deaf to, is the voice of St. Pius X warning against Modernism, the “synthesis of all errors” (*Pascendi Dominici Gregis*), which is the very spirit animating this document.
The Omission of the Supernatural: The Hallmark of Modernism
The most damning aspect of this spectacle is its silence. There is no mention of the supernatural virtues. No mention of the necessity of sanctifying grace for true human flourishing. No mention of the reality of sin, both original and actual, as the root cause of all disorder in the world. The “humanity” celebrated in *Magnifica Humanitas* is a purely naturalistic, horizontal concept. It is the “cult of man” condemned by St. Pius X in *Lamentabili Sane Exitu* (proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him”).
The “disarmament” called for is a secular, political act. It ignores the only true disarmament: the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as requested at Fatima (a false apparition, but its core message of prayer and penance is valid in principle, even if the specific event was a Masonic operation). It ignores the warning of Our Lord: “But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” (Luke 18:8). The world’s problems are not a lack of ethical AI, but a lack of love for God. “For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).
The Enthronement of the World: Olah and the New Priests
Christopher Olah’s speech is a manifesto for the new globalist religion. His call for “informed critics” and “moral voices that the incentives cannot bend” is a call for a secular priesthood of technocrats and ethicists. He thanks the “Church for taking up this work of discernment,” effectively making the Catholic Church a sub-contractor for the Silicon Valley agenda. This is the “democratization of the Church” taken to its ultimate conclusion: the laity, and even non-believers, are now the teachers, and the “pupil” is the Vicar of Christ (or so they pretend).
This is the fruit of *Dignitatis Humanae*, the conciliar declaration on religious freedom, which opened the door to the idea that all religions and worldviews are equally valid paths to truth. The “dialogue” praised by Robert Prevost is not the dialogue of St. Paul at the Areopagus, who proclaimed the Risen Christ, but the dialogue of the serpent in Eden, who questions God’s word and offers a better, more “enlightened” path.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
*Magnifica Humanitas* is not an encyclical. It is a press release from the synodal technocracy. It replaces the Gospel with a user manual for the digital age. It substitutes the Kingship of Christ with the reign of Artificial Intelligence. It is the logical, inevitable endpoint of the apostasy begun at Vatican II: the Church of Man, enthroned in the temple of God, proclaiming itself to be the savior of humanity (cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:4).
The true response to the challenges of the modern world is not “dialogue” with tech billionaires, but a return to the immutable Tradition of the Catholic Church: the Traditional Latin Mass, the sacraments administered with reverence, the teaching of the pre-conciliar popes, and the recognition that there is no salvation outside the true Church, and no peace except in the Kingdom of Christ the King. *Magnifica Humanitas* is not a sign of hope; it is a sign of the times, a beacon lighting the way to the abyss. Let the faithful reject this counterfeit and cling to the true deposit of faith, which can never be changed, diluted, or “updated” to suit the spirit of the age.
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Pope Leo unveils his encyclical: AI has ‘even greater consequences’ than Industrial Revolution (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 25.05.2026