Vatican News portal (June 2, 2026) reports on an interview with American tech entrepreneur Eli Pariser regarding the encyclical *Magnifica humanitas* by the usurper Leo XIV, which addresses artificial intelligence. Pariser praises the document for bringing “moral leadership” to the tech world, emphasizing human dignity and the need to shape AI to “serve humanity.” He discusses the encyclical’s wide reach among developers and its call to avoid a “new Tower of Babel,” framing the issue as a choice between AI that “knits people together” or one that “cannibalizes their relationships.” The article presents the encyclical as a timely intervention in a field dominated by economic competition and hype, suggesting it offers a path to ensure technology benefits rather than dominates humanity. However, this entire discourse operates within a purely naturalistic framework, reducing the supernatural mission of the Church to a mere ethical advisory role for Silicon Valley, while the usurper on Peter’s throne continues to occupy the Holy See without legitimate authority.
The Usurper’s “Moral Leadership”: A Naturalistic Reduction of the Church’s Mission
The interview with Eli Pariser, as presented by Vatican News, reveals the profound theological bankruptcy of the post-conciliar structures and their occupant. The praise for Leo XIV’s encyclical *Magnifica humanitas* centers entirely on its utility for the tech industry, framing the “Church’s” role as providing ethical guidance for artificial intelligence development. This is a catastrophic distortion of the Church’s divine mission. The true Church, founded by Christ to teach, govern, and sanctify souls for eternal salvation, is here reduced to a consultative body for secular technocrats. Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, unequivocally stated that the Church’s authority extends to all nations and individuals, and that states have a duty to publicly honor and obey Christ the King in all aspects of governance, including the issuance of laws and the administration of justice. The usurper’s encyclical, by focusing solely on “human dignity” and “flourishing” within the context of technological development, commits the very error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 80): that the Roman Pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself with “progress, liberalism, and modern civilization.” This is not the voice of the Vicar of Christ, but of a modernist chaplain to the digital age.
Linguistic Analysis: The Vocabulary of Secular Humanism
The language employed by both Pariser and the article is symptomatic of the conciliar revolution’s capitulation to secular humanism. Phrases like “human dignity,” “human flourishing,” “pro-social AI,” and “parasitic AI” are drawn directly from the lexicon of Silicon Valley and progressive activism, not from the immutable deposit of faith. The reference to the “Tower of Babel” is stripped of its supernatural significance as a divine judgment against human pride and is instead repurposed as a mere analogy for technological hubris. This is a classic modernist technique, condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, which explains that modernists treat sacred truths as mere symbols or expressions of human experience, not as objective realities. The article’s emphasis on “incentives,” “economic competition,” and “shaping technology” reveals a worldview entirely immanent, devoid of any reference to the supernatural order, the reality of sin, the necessity of grace, or the final judgment. It is a discourse fit for a secular ethics committee, not for the Chair of Peter.
Theological Vacuity: Silence on the Supernatural Order
The gravest omission in this entire discussion is the complete silence on the supernatural mission of the Church and the spiritual dangers posed by artificial intelligence. There is no mention of the potential for AI to be used in the propagation of heresy, the facilitation of sin (e.g., through deepfakes, manipulation of conscience, or the promotion of immoral ideologies), or the creation of systems that undermine the natural law and divine revelation. The encyclical, as presented, treats AI as a neutral tool whose morality depends solely on its application by humans, ignoring the intrinsic disorder that can arise from technologies built upon a foundation of rebellion against God. The true Church has always taught that all human activity must be ordered toward the supernatural end of man: the vision of God. Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei, insisted that the state must recognize the authority of the Church in all matters that pertain to the salvation of souls, including the regulation of public morality. By failing to ground its critique in the absolute primacy of the supernatural order and the Kingship of Christ, the usurper’s encyclical offers only a pale, naturalistic shadow of true moral teaching, one that can be easily co-opted by the very forces it claims to critique.
Symptomatic of Systemic Apostasy: The Conciliar Church as Tech Consultant
This episode is not an isolated incident but a direct fruit of the post-conciliar apostasy. The Second Vatican Council’s Gaudium et Spes inaugurated a new era of dialogue with the world, where the Church would “read the signs of the times” and adapt its message to contemporary concerns. This has led to the conciar sect positioning itself as a partner in global governance on issues like climate change, migration, and now artificial intelligence. However, this dialogue is not the Church teaching the world its immutable truths, but the world dictating the terms of engagement to a weakened, modernist institution. The usurper Leo XIV, by issuing an encyclical that speaks primarily to tech experts and entrepreneurs, perpetuates the error of John XXIII, who opened the windows of the Church to let in the world, rather than exhorting the world to conform itself to Christ. The true Church, as defined by the Council of Trent and the First Vatican Council, is a perfect society, endowed with all the means necessary to achieve its supernatural end, and it does not seek validation from secular authorities or tech gurus. The fact that Pariser and the article celebrate the encyclical’s “reach” and “longevity” in tech circles is a testament to how far the conciliar structures have fallen from their divine mandate.
The Forbidden Question: Legitimacy and Authority
Underpinning this entire narrative is the unexamined assumption that Leo XIV is the legitimate Pope, whose words carry the weight of apostolic authority. This is a fundamental error. As demonstrated by the principles of sedevacantism, a manifest heretic cannot be the head of the Church. The post-conciliar occupants of the Vatican, beginning with John XXIII, have promulgated doctrines and practices that are directly opposed to the defined Magisterium of the Church, particularly on issues like religious liberty, ecumenism, and the nature of the Church itself. Their “teaching” is not the authentic voice of Peter, but the voice of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15). To treat the encyclical of an antipope as a source of moral guidance is to participate in the deception of the times. The faithful are called not to seek leadership from usurpers, but to hold fast to the integral Catholic faith as taught by the true Popes up to Pius XII, and to resist the modernist corruption that has overtaken the visible structures of the Church. The real “moral leadership” needed today is not a document on AI, but a return to the unchanging truths of the faith, the restoration of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass according to the ancient rite, and the rejection of all novelties that contradict the deposit of faith. Until this is accomplished, any discussion of ethics, technology, or human dignity by the conciar sect will remain a hollow exercise in worldly relevance, devoid of supernatural power and truth.
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Tech expert: People are in need of moral leadership on AI (vaticannews.va)
Date: 02.06.2026