Antipope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical: Spitzer’s Technocratic Capitulation to the Neo-Church

National Catholic Register (August 31, 2026) publishes a commentary by Jesuit Robert Spitzer, president of the Magis Center and EWTN personality, titled “AI Isn’t Evil — but Prudence Is Essential.” The article functions as an apologia for the latest technological idol, explicitly invoking the authority of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and his fictitious encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. Spitzer argues that generative AI is not intrinsically evil—unlike abortion or euthanasia—and that Catholics are free to employ it provided they exercise “prudence.” He enumerates utilitarian benefits (fusion energy, desalination, business efficiency) and proposes the development of “Catholic AIs” like MagisAI to answer “secular criticisms” about God, the Eucharist, and morality. This piece is not a theological reflection but a manifesto of capitulation to the paramasonic technocracy, legitimizing the antipope’s magisterium and reducing the Church’s mission to a data-processing service for the “AI-enhanced world.”

The Usurper’s Voice as Magisterial Norm

The most grave fact confronting the reader is the uncritical citation of “Pope Leo XIV” and his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas as binding moral authority. Since the death of Pius XII (1958), the See of Peter has been vacant. John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV (Prevost) are manifest heretics who, by their public adhesion to the conciliar errors (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the New Mass), have ipso facto severed themselves from the Mystical Body. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30). Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code confirms that an office becomes vacant ex ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.”

Spitzer’s reliance on “Pope Leo’s… excellent initial suggestions” constitutes formal adherence to a schismatic and heretical hierarchy. He treats the utterances of a layman (Prevost) as if they proceeded from the Vicar of Christ. This is the modus operandi of the conciliar sect: the fabrication of a false magisterium to bind consciences to the spirit of the world. There is no “Pope Leo XIV”; there is only Mr. Prevost, a functionary of the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican.

Reduction of Morality to Utilitarian Technocracy

Spitzer’s ethical framework is purely naturalistic and consequentialist. He distinguishes “intrinsic evil” (abortion, suicide) from AI use, claiming the latter does not “always directly cause unjust irreparable harm or the negation of human dignity.” This is a Protestantized, nominalist conception of morality divorced from the lex aeterna and the finis ultimus of man. Catholic moral theology judges acts by their object, intention, and circumstances in relation to the Supernatural End—the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Spitzer mentions none of these.

Instead, he offers a ledger of material productivity: “clean and abundant energy,” “potable water,” “food through gene editing,” “increasing productivity and efficiency,” “bring down the cost of products.” This is the language of the Masonic “City of Man,” not the City of God. Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) condemned this precisely: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” Spitzer’s “prudence” is the prudentia carnis (Rom 8:6), calculating efficiency for a world that has dethroned Christ the King.

The Gnostic Chimera of “Catholic AI”

The proposal to create “Catholic AIs, such as MagisAI, that do not pretend to be human beings while advancing the cause of Catholic education and evangelization” is a monstrous category error bordering on Gnosticism. The depositum fidei is not a database of propositions to be algorithmically retrieved and deployed against “secular criticisms.” The Church is the Mater et Magistra, a living, hierarchical, sacramental organism instituted by Christ for the sanctification of souls through grace.

Faith comes by hearing (fides ex auditu – Rom 10:17), and hearing by the word of Christ preached by men sent with legitimate mission (missio canonica), not by querying a Large Language Model trained on the scraps of conciliar “theology.”

To suggest that a simulacrum of intelligence can “present evidence and answer secular criticisms about God, Jesus, life after death, the Catholic Church, the Holy Eucharist, Mary” is to reduce Revelation to information retrieval. It denies the necessity of gratia sanans and gratia elevans for the assent of faith. It replaces the living Magisterium of the true Church (preserved in the sedevacantist episcopate and priesthood) with a digital oracle. This is the synagoga Satanae aping the prophetic office.

Linguistic Camouflage: “Democratic Trust” and “Societal Values”

The vocabulary of the article betrays its Modernist, Liberal DNA. Spitzer echoes the antipope’s call for “robust legal frameworks and independent oversight so that tech monopolies… do not unilaterally dictate societal values.” He warns against content that “erodes democratic trust.” These are the shibboleths of the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864).

  • Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.”
  • Error 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State…”
  • Error 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”

Spitzer’s “Catholic” AI ethics seeks a modus vivendi with the saeculum, demanding “oversight” and “legal frameworks” from the very Masonic states that Pius IX and St. Pius X anathematized. He accepts the naturalistic premise that the temporal order is autonomous and that the Church’s role is to offer “seminars” and “tailored advice” to “schools, parishes, businesses.” This is the laicism Pius XI identified as “the plague that poisons human society” (Quas Primas).

Symptomatic of the Conciliar Apostasy: The “Magis Center” as Modernist Laboratory

Fr. Spitzer is not an isolated voice; he is the public face of the Jesuit-Modernist establishment (EWTN, Magis Center). His project “MagisAI” is the logical terminus of the nouvelle theologie and Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes: the immanentization of the eschaton through technology. The article’s silence is deafening on:

  • The Social Kingship of Christ over all technology and law (Quas Primas).
  • The necessity of the State confessing Christ and conforming legislation to Divine Law (Pius XI, Quas Primas; Leo XIII, Immortale Dei).
  • The primacy of the spiritual over the temporal; the subordination of economic efficiency to the salvation of souls.
  • The reality of Original Sin and demonic influence in a technology explicitly designed to simulate the imago Dei (intellect and will) without the soul.

St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist proposition: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Prop. 59). Spitzer’s “prudential adaptation” to AI is exactly this: the evolution of moral doctrine to accommodate the “new transformative technology.” The “balance” he praises in the antipope is the equilibrium of the tightrope walker over the abyss.

The True Catholic Stance: Rejection of the Technocratic Idol

From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the only response to the AI Leviathan is not “prudential use” but radical discrimination and resistance where it threatens the jus divinum and the salus animarum. We do not need “Catholic AIs” to defend the Faith; we need Catholic bishops and priests with valid Orders and jurisdiction (supplied by Ecclesia supplet in this time of universal apostasy) to preach the Gospel, administer the True Sacraments, and denounce the Antichrist’s precursors in the Vatican and Silicon Valley alike.

The “Miracle of the Sun” at Fatima was a Masonic optical deception; the “Miracle of AI” is a Masonic digital deception. Both serve the same Master: the diversion of souls from the Cross and the True Mass toward a false paradise of technological omnipotence. Spitzer’s article is a credentialing document for the Neo-Church, proving once more that the “conservative” wing of the conciliar sect is the most effective engine of the Revolution, for it baptizes the world’s idols with “holy water” stolen from the fonts of Tradition.

Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvari (Acts 4:12). Not MagisAI. Not Leo XIV. Only Jesus Christ, King of Kings.

Source:
AI Isn’t Evil — but Prudence Is Essential   (ncregister.com)
Date: 31.08.2026