Vatican News portal reports on the XI International Scholas Chairs Congress held in Bali, Indonesia, from 4–6 September 2026, where scholars, politicians, businessmen, and religious leaders gathered under the aegis of the conciliar sect’s “Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue” to ponder “Artificial Intelligence and Human Sense.” The event commemorates the second anniversary of antipope Francis’s apostolic visit to Indonesia and the signing of the “Istiqlal Declaration” with Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar, a document emblematic of the false ecumenism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the *Syllabus of Errors*. Participants drafted a “Bali Declaration” pledging allegiance to “ethical, human-centred artificial intelligence oriented towards the common good.” The secretary of the Dicastery, Mr. Indunil Janakaratne Kankanamalage, delivered an address steeped in the vague, naturalistic language of “light,” “encounter,” and “human flourishing,” explicitly referencing the antipope Leo XIV’s encyclical *Magnifica humanitas*. This congress is not a search for truth but a ritualistic celebration of the Masonic trinity of *liberté, égalité, fraternité* dressed in ecclesiastical vestments, a brazen substitution of the *Social Reign of Christ the King* with a technocratic, interreligious Tower of Babel.
The Conciliar Sect’s New Idol: Artificial Intelligence as Tower of Babel
The very premise of the congress—”how to ensure that artificial intelligence is at the service of human dignity, fraternity, and peace”—reveals the naturalistic inversion at the heart of the post-conciliar project. The “Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue” and the Scholas Occurrentes movement, founded by the arch-modernist Bergoglio, treat technology as a quasi-soteriological problem to be solved by human consensus, absque Deo. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior” and that “when God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Bali gathering ignores this dogmatic reality entirely. It seeks a “plurality of voices” to find “solutions,” effectively denying that the only solution to the disorders of the world is the submission of all faculties—intellectual, technological, political—to the Kingship of Christ. The congress treats AI not as a tool subordinate to the moral law of God, but as a new frontier for the “common good” defined in purely immanentist, Masonic terms. This is the civitas terrena building its tower to heaven, refusing the Civitas Dei.
False Ecumenism and the Istiqlal Declaration: Betrayal of the First Commandment
The celebration of the “Istiqlal Declaration,” signed by the antipope Francis and a Muslim Grand Imam in a mosque, stands as a public act of apostasy and a direct violation of the First Commandment. The *Syllabus of Errors* (1864) explicitly condemns the proposition that “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” (Error 18) and that “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15). The “Istiqlal Declaration” institutionalizes this indifferentism, placing the Ark of Salvation on the same level as the false religion of Islam. The congress in Bali, commemorating this scandal, confirms that the conciliar sect’s “interreligious dialogue” is not a mission to convert the nations to the one true Faith (Matt 28:19), but a diplomatic exercise in religious syncretism. Mr. Kankanamalage’s call for “encounter with the transcendent, with oneself, with others, and with nature” pointedly omits encounter with Jesus Christ, the sole Mediator (1 Tim 2:5). This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place: a pseudo-magisterium teaching that salvation can be found in the “plurality of voices” of false religions.
The “Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue”: Engine of Indifferentism Condemned by Pius IX
The very existence of a “Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue” is a structural embodiment of the errors condemned in the *Syllabus* (Section III: Indifferentism, Latitudinarianism). Pope Pius IX condemned the idea that “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Error 17). Yet this dicastery, headed by a layman (Mr. Kankanamalage, invalidly “ordained” in the new rite), functions precisely to promote that false hope. His speech at the congress—speaking of “light from God” but also “encounter with nature”—is pure Modernist immanence. St. Pius X in *Lamentabili Sane Exitu* condemned the proposition that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Prop. 20) and that “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts” (Prop. 22). The dicastery’s rhetoric of “ethical principles,” “human dignity,” and “solidarity” detached from the depositum fidei is the practical application of these condemned errors. It replaces the lex credendi with a “lex dialogandi,” making the Church a mere NGO for global governance.
Magnifica Humanitas: The Antipope’s Encyclical of Naturalistic Humanism
The reference to antipope Leo XIV’s encyclical *Magnifica humanitas* (a title dripping with Pelagian self-exaltation) as a theological touchstone for AI ethics confirms the total rupture with Catholic Tradition. A true Pope teaches in the name of Christ the King, cujus regni non erit finis (Luke 1:33). An antipope teaches in the name of “magnificent humanity.” The *Syllabus* condemns the error that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Leo XIV’s encyclical, invoked to bless a congress on AI “ethics,” is the quintessence of this reconciliation with the world. It offers a “human-centered” AI, but homo without Deus is a beast. The congress’s goal—”neither reject technology nor worship it”—is a pragmatic compromise worthy of a Masonic lodge, not the Bride of Christ. The true Catholic principle, articulated by Pius XI, is that “Christ received from the Father unlimited right over all that is created, so that all is subject to His will” (*Quas Primas*). Technology, like every human faculty, must be explicitly consecrated to the Sacred Heart, not managed by a “Bali Declaration” of interreligious goodwill.
Scholas Occurrentes: The Pedagogy of the New World Order
The “Scholas Chairs” (Cátedras Scholas) are the educational arm of the Bergoglian revolution, a global network designed to indoctrinate youth into the religion of “fraternity” and “encounter” divorced from the Credo. The congress’s composition—”scholars, politicians, businessmen and women, religious leaders, activists, and young people”—mirrors the structure of the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. This is not the Church Militant; it is the synagogue of Satan (Apoc 2:9) gathering its troops, as Pius IX described the Masonic sects in the allocution attached to the *Syllabus*. The “Bali Declaration” they will produce is a pseudo-dogmatic text for the neo-church, binding consciences to a “common good” defined by the enemies of Christ. It is the lex ecclesiae of the counter-church: dialogue, inclusion, sustainability. The silence on sin, grace, the Cross, the Sacraments, the Last Judgment, and the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus) is not an omission; it is the essence of their heresy.
The Bali Declaration: A Masonic Manifesto for a Godless “Common Good”
The promised “Bali Declaration”—a “shared commitment to continue promoting ethical, human-centred artificial intelligence oriented towards the common good”—is a document of practical atheism. The *Syllabus* condemns the proposition that “Moral laws do not stand in 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” (Error 56). The “common good” invoked in Bali is the Masonic *bonum commune* of the *civitas terrena*, explicitly severed from the *Summum Bonum* who is God. Mr. Kankanamalage’s list of “ethical principles”—”commitment to human dignity and freedom; preservation of truth and of the inner life; strengthening human relationships; education, justice, and inclusion; and solidarity and the common good”—is a catalogue of natural virtues elevated to idols. “Truth” here is not *Veritas* (Christ), but consensus. “Freedom” is not *libertas filiorum Dei* (Gal 4:31), but autonomy from God’s Law. “Inclusion” is the refusal to exclude error. This declaration will be hailed by the neo-church as a “sign of the times,” but it is a declaration of war on the Kingship of Christ.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The most damning aspect of the congress, the speech, and the declaration is what is entirely absent. There is no mention of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Rosary, the Sacraments, the state of grace, the Four Last Things, the Immaculate Heart of Mary (true devotion, not the Masonic Fatima caricature), or the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith for the salvation of souls. The “light” spoken of is not the Lumen Christi; the “encounter” is not the Encounter with the Living God in the Eucharist. St. Pius X warned in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis* (confirmed by *Lamentabili*) that Modernism aims at the “corruption of dogmas” and the “destruction of the Church” by transforming it into a humanitarian association. This congress is the modus operandi of that destruction. The “Scholas Chairs” are chairs of pestilence; the “Dicastery” is a dicastery of death. The only “intelligence” that saves is the Intellectus Agens illuminated by Faith; the only “artificial” thing here is the artificial church erected by the usurpers in the Vatican, a whited sepulchre (Matt 23:27) full of dead men’s bones—dead works, dead faith, dead souls.
Non possumus. The Catholic Church, the true Church of Christ, subsists in those who hold the integral Faith of the Fathers, the Mass of All Time, and the Social Kingship of Christ. She has no part in this Babel of Bali.
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Congress of Scholas Chairs reflects on challenges of AI (vaticannews.va)
Date: 04.09.2026