The National Catholic Register reports that Father Brendan McGuire, a former Silicon Valley executive and current pastor in Los Altos, California, claims that the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas issued by the antipope Leo XIV has “opened the doors for deeper conversations between the Church and the tech industry regarding how AI is going to affect humanity.” McGuire, who holds degrees in engineering and computer science from Trinity College Dublin and previously worked for the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA), boasts of having “helped shape Claude’s Constitution,” the 23,000-word document governing how the AI system Claude reasons through complex moral questions. He also co-founded the Institute for Technology, Ethics, and Culture — a formal partnership between Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education. “More intensely over this last year, we’ve been more deliberately, and more intentionally, engaged in deeper conversations monthly … mostly with Anthropic, and we believe this document now will be able to deepen these relationships even more,” he said. The priest praised the antipope’s “reframing” of the issue: “How do we have all of humanity … flourish inside of AI? Instead of the other way around.” He further claimed that those in the tech industry “are men and women of goodwill” who “are looking for wisdom” and that “every religious tradition needs to lean into this moment.”
The Abomination of Desolation Speaks on the Temple of Technology
Let us be absolutely clear about what is being described here, stripping away the veneer of pious language. A priest of the conciliar sect — a man whose formation is entirely a product of the post-1958 revolution — sits in Silicon Valley, the very epicenter of the transhumanist project, and declares that the structures occupying the Vatican are now in “deeper conversations monthly” with Anthropic, an AI company that filed to go public on June 1, 2026. This is not the Church of Jesus Christ engaging the world. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15), negotiating with the architects of what may well become the most powerful instrument of the Antichrist’s reign.
The antipope Leo XIV — Robert Prevost, a man who occupies the Vatican as part of the line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII — issues an encyclical titled Magnifica Humanitas. The title itself is a blasphemous inversion. True humanitas, in the Catholic sense, is ordered toward the supernatural end of man: the Beatific Vision, the knowledge and love of God for all eternity. The Magnifica Humanitas of the conciliar sect is ordered toward a radically different end: the “flourishing of humanity inside of AI.” This is not Christianity. This is the cult of man elevated to the status of magisterial teaching, the very error condemned with the utmost severity by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: “All action of God upon man and the world is to be denied” (Proposition 1), and “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” (Proposition 3).
The Tower of Babel Rebuilt with Silicon Bricks
Father McGuire enthusiastically reports that the antipope “uses two biblical metaphors” in the encyclical: the Tower of Babel and the rebuilding of Jerusalem by Nehemiah. He says the message is “we don’t want to go back to the Tower of Babel, where everyone builds it for their own … purposes,” and instead wants something like Jerusalem where “everyone has a role.”
This is a masterclass in inversion. The Tower of Babel was humanity’s attempt to reach heaven by its own power, without God, through collective technological achievement. God Himself confounded their language and scattered them across the earth (Gen. 11:1-9). The rebuilding of Jerusalem under Nehemiah was an act of faith, accomplished by the chosen people in obedience to God’s law, under the protection of divine providence, and in explicit opposition to the surrounding pagan nations. Nehemiah prayed: “Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples'” (Neh. 1:8). The entire enterprise was ordered toward the restoration of true worship of the one true God.
What Father McGuire and the antipope are actually proposing is the exact opposite of both biblical narratives. They are not warning against Babel — they are embracing it. They are not rebuilding Jerusalem in faith — they are constructing a new Babylon in which “every family, every person, every engineer, every journalist, every philosopher” collaborates in building the AI tower. This is not Nehemiah’s Jerusalem. This is the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9, 3:9), where all religious traditions — “not just the Catholic Church,” as McGuire explicitly states — are invited to “lean into this moment” together. This is indifferentism, condemned by Pius IX: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Proposition 16), and “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Proposition 18).
“Wisdom” from Outside the Church: The Modernist Heresy in Full Bloom
Father McGuire states: “They need wisdom from outside. It’s not just the Catholic Church. Every religious tradition needs to lean into this moment.” Let us examine this statement with the precision it deserves.
The Catholic Church has always taught that she alone possesses the fullness of divine revelation, that she is the one true Church founded by Jesus Christ, and that outside her there is no salvation. This is not arrogance — it is the solemn teaching of the Magisterium. Pope Pius IX declared: “The Church has the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” — and condemned the opposite proposition (Proposition 21 of the Syllabus). The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) taught: “There is indeed one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which nobody at all is saved.” Pope Boniface VIII in Unam Sanctam (1302) proclaimed: “We declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”
When McGuire says “every religious tradition needs to lean into this moment,” he is not merely expressing a personal opinion. He is articulating the operative theology of the conciliar sect — the theology of Nostra Aetate, of Assisi 1986, of every interreligious gathering that has poured contempt upon the blood of Christ by placing the Catholic faith on equal footing with false religions. This is the pest of indifferentism that Pius IX identified as one of the defining errors of modern liberalism (Proposition 77): “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to exclude all other forms of worship.”
The claim that tech companies “need wisdom from outside” the Catholic Church — and that this “outside wisdom” includes “every religious tradition” — is a direct denial of the Church’s exclusive custodianship of divine truth. It is the heresy of latitudinarianism dressed in the language of pastoral engagement. St. Pius X, in Lamentabili sane exitu, condemned the proposition that “the Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Proposition 6). The conciliar sect has inverted the Magisterium: now the “listening” includes not just the faithful, but tech companies, AI systems, and every religious tradition on earth.
The “Claude Constitution”: A New Decalogue Written by a Priest of the Neo-Church
Perhaps the most revealing detail in this entire report is that Father McGuire “helped shape Claude’s Constitution, the 23,000-word document governing how Claude reasons through complex moral questions.” Let us consider what this means.
An artificial intelligence system — a machine, a product of human engineering, a creation of the same Silicon Valley culture that has given us the surveillance state, the pornography epidemic, the social media platforms that have destroyed the minds of an entire generation — is being given a “constitution” that governs its “moral reasoning.” And a priest of the conciliar sect helped write it.
The Catholic Church has a moral law. It is called the Natural Law, inscribed by God in the heart of every man (Rom. 2:14-15), and it has been authoritatively expounded by the Magisterium through Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and the teaching of the ecumenical councils. The Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, the moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, the teachings of the Council of Trent — these constitute the moral framework by which human beings are to live and by which they will be judged at the hour of death.
What is the “Claude Constitution”? It is a 23,000-word document created by a tech company, shaped by a priest whose entire theological formation is a product of the post-conciliar revolution, and designed to govern how an artificial intelligence “reasons” about morality. This is not the Natural Law. This is not the divine law. This is human law — the law of the Condemned Proposition 56 from the Syllabus of Errors: “Moral laws do not stand in the need of the divine sanction, and it is not at all necessary that human laws should be made conformable to the laws of nature and receive their power of binding from God.”
The very concept that an AI system requires a “constitution” for moral reasoning — and that a priest of the conciliar sect is the appropriate person to help write it — reveals the depth of the apostasy. The true Church has never needed to outsource moral reasoning to machines. She has the sacraments, the Magisterium, the Fathers and Doctors, the catechisms, the papal encyclicals of the true popes. The fact that the conciliar sect is now collaborating with AI companies to create artificial moral frameworks is a sign that it has lost confidence in its own authority — because it has no authority to lose.
The “Flourishing of Humanity Inside of AI”: Transhumanism as Gospel
Father McGuire praises the antipope’s “reframing”: “How do we have all of humanity … flourish inside of AI? Instead of the other way around.”
This sentence, more than any other in the article, reveals the transhumanist orientation of the conciliar sect. The question is not whether AI should serve humanity’s supernatural end — the salvation of souls, the glory of God, the coming of the Kingdom of Christ. The question is how humanity can “flourish inside AI.” This is not Catholic teaching. This is the evolution of dogmas condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Proposition 58), and “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism” (Proposition 65).
The Catholic understanding of human flourishing is entirely supernatural. Man’s end is God. “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you” (St. Augustine, Confessions I.1). The flourishing of humanity consists in the knowledge and love of God, the practice of virtue, the reception of the sacraments, and the attainment of eternal life. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, taught that the Kingdom of Christ “encompasses all men” and that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The reign of Christ is not “inside of AI.” The reign of Christ is over every human soul, every nation, every aspect of human life — including, and especially, technology.
The conciliar sect’s vision of “flourishing inside of AI” is the exact opposite of the Catholic vision. It is the vision of a humanity that has abandoned its supernatural destiny and seeks fulfillment in the creations of its own hands. It is the vision of Babel. It is the vision of the man of sin who “opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God” (2 Thess. 2:3-4).
The Silence About What Matters Most
Let us now consider what is absent from this article — for in the conciliar sect, silence about supernatural matters is the gravest accusation.
There is no mention of the state of grace. There is no mention of the sacraments as the true source of moral wisdom. There is no mention of prayer, of mortification, of the Cross. There is no mention of sin, of repentance, of the final judgment. There is no mention of the divinity of Christ, of the Real Presence, of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. There is no mention of the social reign of Christ the King over the tech industry, over Silicon Valley, over every AI system ever created.
Instead, we have “deeper conversations monthly” with Anthropic. We have a “Claude Constitution.” We have “flourishing inside of AI.” We have “every religious tradition” leaning in together. We have a priest who worked for PCMCIA and studied at Trinity College Dublin telling us that the window is “closing” and that we must act now.
The window is indeed closing — but not in the way Father McGuire imagines. The window of divine grace is closing for those who collaborate with the conciliar sect. The window of salvation is closing for those who place their trust in AI “constitutions” rather than in the sacraments of the true Church. The window of mercy is closing for those who rebuild Babel while calling it Jerusalem.
The Verdict of Catholic Doctrine
Pope 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). Yet this is precisely what the antipope Leo XIV and his priest-collaborators are doing — reconciling the conciliar sect with the most dangerous manifestation of modern civilization: artificial intelligence.
St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, identified Modernism as the “synthesis of all errors.” The article before us is a perfect illustration of this synthesis. It combines indifferentism (all religious traditions welcomed), naturalism (no supernatural framework for AI ethics), the evolution of dogmas (humanity “flourishing inside of AI” as a new gospel), and the democratization of moral authority (tech companies and priests co-writing AI constitutions).
The true Church — the Church of all ages, the Church that endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith — has no need of “deeper conversations” with Silicon Valley. She has the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. She has the sacraments. She has the unchanging moral law. She has the social reign of Christ the King, who demands that all nations — including the nation of Silicon Valley — submit to His divine authority.
What the conciliar sect offers to the tech industry is not wisdom. It is surrender. It is the surrender of the Church’s supernatural mission to the transhumanist project. It is the surrender of the Natural Law to the “Claude Constitution.” It is the surrender of the Kingdom of Christ to the Kingdom of Man — a kingdom now being built, brick by silicon brick, in the image and likeness of the Antichrist.
“For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?” (Matt. 16:26). The conciliar sect is gaining the whole world — the tech industry, the AI companies, the goodwill of “men and women of goodwill” — and forfeiting everything that matters: the faith, the sacraments, the souls of the faithful, and the honor of God.
Source:
‘Magnifica Humanitas’ Seen Deepening Church-Tech Ties, Former Silicon Valley Exec Says (ncregister.com)
Date: 02.06.2026