EWTN News portal reports that the European Commission has praised the encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* of the antipope Leo XIV, stating that its vision for artificial intelligence “mirrors” existing EU regulations. The article, dated June 22, 2026, describes a closed-door dialogue between EU officials, leaders of the conciliar sect, and AI experts, where Brussels spokesperson Thomas Regnier declared: “We could not agree more with the vision of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV.” The piece further details how the European Parliament voted to postpone certain high-risk AI obligations, while COMECE (the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union) urged “human-centered regulation.” The entire spectacle reveals not a Church guiding the world, but a paramasonic structure genuflecting before the secularist idol of “human dignity” stripped of all supernatural content.
The “Encyclical” as a Mirror of Apostasy
The very title of this so-called encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, should arrest the attention of every Catholic who remembers that the glory belongs not to humanity but to God. When the occupant of the Vatican speaks of “human dignity” and “the common good” without explicit subordination to the supernatural end of man—the Beatific Vision—and without proclaiming the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation, he speaks the language of the Syllabus of Errors, not of the Gospel. Pope Pius IX condemned in proposition 79 of the Syllabus the idea that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” Yet here we see the conciliar sect not merely reconciling but actively harmonizing its message with the regulatory framework of a secularist political body.
The article quotes Regnier: “What the Pope describes is what Europe is already doing… We are protecting minors online. We have banned AI systems that exploit the most vulnerable. We are protecting women and children from non-consensual and sexual-abuse AI-generated content. We have prohibited social scoring.” Notice the complete absence of any reference to sin, grace, the sacraments, the moral law as revealed by God, or the authority of the Church to teach and govern. The “values” praised by Brussels are purely naturalistic—the same “human dignity” proclaimed by the UN, by Freemasonry, and by every secularist regime since the French Revolution. This is precisely the “cult of man” that the true Church has always condemned.
The Omission That Condemns
Let us apply the test of what is omitted. In an article of this length discussing the intersection of technology and ethics, there is:
- No mention of the First Commandment—that God alone is to be worshipped, and that no technological development may serve idolatry or the worship of the creature.
- No mention of the supernatural end of man—that we are created for eternal life with God, not for temporal “flourishing” defined by secular regulators.
- No mention of the Church’s exclusive competence in matters of faith and morals—instead, the conciliar sect presents itself as one voice among many in a “dialogue” with secular authorities.
- No mention of the social reign of Christ the King—the very foundation of Catholic social teaching as articulated by Pius XI in Quas Primas, who declared: “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.”
- No mention of the danger of AI being used to spread heresy, sacrilege, or blasphemy—the sole concern is “non-consensual content” and “social scoring,” categories defined by secular law, not by the moral law of God.
This silence is not accidental; it is the hallmark of the conciliar revolution. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), the Modernists “proceed to the extent of admitting that dogmas are not only not repugnant to science, but are really capable of being harmonized with science”—and here we see the harmonization not merely with science but with the regulatory apparatus of a post-Christian political entity.
The EU as the New Magisterium
The article reveals a breathtaking inversion of the proper order. Irish MEP Michael McNamara is quoted referring to both Leo XIV’s encyclical and Antiqua et Nova (a document of the Francis pontificate), saying it was essential to ensure “that AI systems work for the benefit of humanity.” But who defines “benefit”? Who defines “humanity”? The Catholic answer is clear: God defines it, through His Church. The EU answer is equally clear: the secular state defines it, through its regulatory bodies.
Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” Yet here we see the conciliar sect not demanding independence but alignment. The European Commission spokesperson does not say, “We will consider the Church’s teaching”; he says, “We could not agree more.” The conciliar sect has become a chaplain to the secular order, blessing its regulations with the language of “human dignity” while surrendering the Church’s divine mandate to teach, govern, and sanctify.
The Linguistic Betrayal
The vocabulary of the article is itself a symptom of the disease. Consider the following terms, all drawn from the text:
- “Human dignity”—a phrase that, in Catholic teaching, is inseparable from man’s creation in the image of God and his redemption by Christ. In the EU context, it is a secular legal concept divorced from any supernatural foundation.
- “Common good”—for the Catholic, this means the conditions necessary for men to attain their supernatural end. For the EU, it means the temporal welfare of citizens as defined by secular law.
- “Regulatory certainty”—the language of bureaucracy, not of the Church. The Church does not seek “regulatory certainty”; she proclaims truth.
- “Human-centered regulation”—the very phrase used by COMECE’s Msgr. Agius. But the Church has always taught that regulation must be God-centered, with all human authority deriving from the Divine Law.
This is the language of Lamentabili sane exitu (1907) made flesh—the reduction of Catholic teaching to the categories of secular humanism. St. Pius X condemned the proposition that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and natural sciences” (proposition 58), but he equally condemned the proposition that “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). Magnifica Humanitas is precisely this “dogmaless Christianity”—a Catholicism that has no hard edges, no exclusive claims, no supernatural demands, and therefore no reason to exist.
The Symptom of Systemic Apostasy
This article is not an isolated incident; it is the inevitable fruit of the conciliar revolution. When John XXIII convoked Vatican II under the banner of aggiornamento, he opened the door to precisely this kind of capitulation. The “pastoral” approach that replaced the dogmatic approach has led, step by step, to the present situation where the conciliar sect presents itself as a partner in secular governance rather than as the one true Church entrusted with the salvation of souls.
The article mentions Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, participating in the Vatican presentation of the encyclical. A representative of a frontier AI company is given a platform at the Vatican—not to be evangelized, not to be called to conversion, but to discuss “ethical and social impact” on equal terms with the “pope.” This is the “dialogue with the world” that Vatican II inaugurated, and it has led not to the conversion of the world but to the conversion of the conciliar sect to the world’s values.
The Duty of the Faithful
Faced with this spectacle, the faithful who retain the integral Catholic faith must:
- Reject the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas as a document of the conciliar sect, not of the Catholic Church. It carries no authority, proceeding as it does from a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his manifest heresy, has lost his jurisdiction (as St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice, II, 30).
- Condemn the alignment of the conciliar sect with secular regulatory bodies as a betrayal of the Church’s divine mission. The Church does not need the EU’s approval; the EU needs the Church’s condemnation of its secularist errors.
- Proclaim the Social Reign of Christ the King over all nations, including the European Union, and over all domains of human activity, including technology. As Pius XI declared: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.”
- Recognize that the conciliar sect is not the Church but the “abomination of desolation” spoken of by Our Lord (Matthew 24:15), a paramasonic structure that has emptied the faith of its content and replaced it with the worship of man.
The EU does not need the conciliar sect’s approval to regulate AI. The conciliar sect does not need the EU’s validation to proclaim the truth. But the conciliar sect, having abandoned the truth, seeks validation from every quarter—and finds it, because the world loves its own. Let the faithful, however, remain steadfast in the unchanging faith of the Church, which endures not in the structures occupying the Vatican but in those who profess the integral Catholic faith and remain faithful to the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as offered before the conciliar revolution.
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EU tells EWTN News that Pope Leo's AI vision mirrors Europe's own rules (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 22.06.2026