The European Commission has brazenly endorsed the latest encyclical of the antipope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas, claiming that his vision for artificial intelligence “mirrors” the European Union’s own regulatory framework. In a closed-door dialogue between EU officials and representatives of the conciliar sect, spokesperson Thomas Regnier declared: “We could not agree more with the vision of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV and with the need for a robust legal framework for AI. In the EU, this is not just an aspiration. It is already what we are doing through the AI Act, the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, the GDPR and much more.” This unholy alliance between the post-conciliar structures occupying the Vatican and the technocratic apparatus of Brussels reveals the convergence of two apostate systems — both dedicated to the erection of a new world order built upon the ruins of Christendom, while systematically excluding the supernatural order, the Kingship of Christ, and the immutable moral law from their so-called “ethical” frameworks.
The Antipope as Spokesman for Secular Humanism
The encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, published on May 25, 2026, purports to address the challenges of artificial intelligence by invoking “human dignity” and “the common good.” Yet these terms, stripped of their supernatural foundation in the Catholic natural law tradition, are nothing more than the hollow shibboleths of secular liberalism. When Leo XIV speaks of “human dignity,” he does not mean the dignity conferred by baptism, the state of grace, and the destiny of eternal beatitude — for the entire conciliar revolution has systematically obscured these truths. Rather, he invokes the same autonomous, self-referential “dignity” condemned by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925), where the Holy Father warned that peace would never shine upon nations “as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.”
The European Commission’s enthusiastic endorsement confirms what every Catholic faithful to Tradition has long recognized: the post-conciliar “Church” no longer speaks with the voice of the Mystical Body of Christ but with the voice of the world. Regnier’s statement — “His Holiness speaks of human dignity and the common good. These are exactly the European values” — is an admission that the conciliar sect and the European Union share a common religion: the religion of man, autonomous, self-creating, and defiant of his Creator. This is precisely the “public apostasy” condemned by Pius XI, which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.”
The Omission of Christ: The Gravest Heresy
What is most damning about both the encyclical and the EU’s response is not what they say, but what they refuse to say. Neither Leo XIV’s encyclical nor the European Commission’s statements contain any mention of Jesus Christ as King, any reference to the supernatural order, any acknowledgment of the necessity of grace, or any warning about the eternal consequences of sin. The “human dignity” they proclaim is a mannequin — lifeless, soulless, and severed from the only source of true dignity: the fact that man is created in the image and likeness of God, redeemed by the Precious Blood of Christ, and ordered toward eternal salvation through the one true Church.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned as error number 80 the proposition that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” Yet this is precisely what Leo XIV and his conciliar apparatus have done — not merely reconciling themselves with modernity, but actively baptizing its most dangerous innovations with the language of Catholic social teaching. The EU’s AI Act, with its prohibitions on “social scoring” and its protections for “fundamental rights,” is presented as a model of ethical governance, yet it operates entirely within the framework of a secular, relativistic order that recognizes no authority above the state.
The False “Common Good” of the European Project
The “common good” invoked by both the antipope and the European Commission is not the supernatural common good of the Catholic social order — the ordering of all things toward God, as articulated by St. Thomas Aquinas and reaffirmed by every Pope from Leo XIII to Pius XII. Rather, it is the utilitarian, materialistic “common good” of the managerial state: the maximization of comfort, the minimization of risk, and the regulation of behavior through bureaucratic fiat.
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism that sought to exclude Christ from public life. He declared: “When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” The European Union, with its AI Act, its Digital Services Act, and its GDPR, represents the apotheosis of this derangement — a system of total regulation that claims to protect humanity while systematically denying the only source of true protection: the Kingship of Christ.
The EU’s claim to “protect minors online” and to “ban AI systems that exploit the most vulnerable” is a grotesque parody of true protection. For what protection can a secular state offer when it simultaneously promotes contraception, abortion, gender ideology, and the dissolution of the family — all of which are forms of exploitation far more devastating than any algorithm? The EU’s “fundamental rights” are the rights of autonomous man, not the rights of the children of God.
The Conciliar Sect as Instrument of Global Governance
The closed-door dialogue between EU officials and representatives of the conciliar sect is not an isolated event but part of a systematic pattern. Since the Second Vatican Council, the post-conciliar apparatus has functioned as a chaplaincy to the globalist project, providing a veneer of spiritual legitimacy to the designs of international organizations. The participation of Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah at the Vatican presentation of Magnifica Humanitas — as reported in the same EWTN article — demonstrates that the conciliar sect seeks not to evangelize the technocratic elite but to be evangelized by them, adopting their categories, their language, and their vision of a world governed by artificial intelligence rather than by divine providence.
This is the fulfillment of the warnings of St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) and Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), where the Modernist heresy was condemned as “the synthesis of all heresies.” The Modernists, St. Pius X taught, sought to reduce religion to subjective experience and to accommodate the faith to the prevailing philosophy of the age. What greater accommodation can there be than the endorsement of artificial intelligence — the most ambitious project of human self-deification since the Tower of Babel — by the very structures that claim to represent the Vicar of Christ?
The AI Act: A New Instrument of Persecution
While the European Parliament has postponed certain obligations under the AI Act for high-risk systems in healthcare, education, employment, and law enforcement, the fundamental architecture of surveillance and control remains intact. Irish MEP Michael McNamara’s assurance that “the protections, the fundamental rights protections, the requirement that you have human beings in the loop, that you have a human override, these all remain in place” is cold comfort to those who understand that the very concept of “human override” presupposes a secular, utilitarian definition of the human person that excludes the supernatural.
The EU’s prohibition of “nudification” applications and AI-generated child sexual abuse material, while superficially laudable, serves a dual purpose: it normalizes the surveillance infrastructure necessary for the enforcement of these prohibitions, and it creates a precedent for the regulation of all forms of expression deemed “harmful” by the state. In a world where the conciliar sect has abandoned its prophetic mission, who will warn that the same infrastructure used to protect children today may be used to silence the faithful tomorrow?
The True Catholic Response
The Catholic response to the challenges of artificial intelligence cannot be found in the documents of the conciliar sect or in the regulations of the European Union. It is found in the immutable teaching of the Church: that man is created by God, redeemed by Christ, and ordered toward supernatural beatitude; that the state is subject to the moral law and must publicly recognize the Kingship of Christ; and that no technological innovation, however sophisticated, can substitute for the grace of the sacraments, the authority of the true Church, and the final judgment of God.
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, declared: “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… and it matters not whether individuals, families, or states, for men united in societies are no less subject to the authority of Christ than individuals.” Until the nations — including the nations of Europe — publicly confess this truth, all their regulations, all their AI Acts, and all their “European values” will remain what they truly are: the scaffolding of the abomination of desolation, erected on the ruins of Christendom.
The faithful must reject both the false prophecy of Leo XIV and the false religion of the European Union. They must cling to the integral Catholic faith, to the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to the social reign of Christ the King, and to the unchanging teaching of the Church before the conciliar revolution. For as Our Lord Himself warned: “What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).
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EWTN News Exclusive: EU Says Pope Leo's AI Vision Mirrors Europe's Own Rules (ncregister.com)
Date: 22.06.2026