The EWTN News portal (October 21, 2026) reports that a trio of conciliar “moral theologians” — Jana Bennett of the University of Dayton, “Fr.” Michael Baggot of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, and Joe Vukov of Loyola University Chicago — have filed an *amicus curiae* brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. They urge the secular tribunal to impose “defined normative boundaries” on the Pentagon’s use of artificial intelligence, specifically endorsing the AI corporation Anthropic’s refusal to allow its models for “lethal autonomous warfare” and “mass domestic surveillance.” The brief cites the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church on privacy, the antipope Benedict XVI’s *Spe Salvi*, and the reigning usurper “Pope” Leo XIV’s fabricated encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas*. This spectacle of modernist hirelings petitioning Caesar to regulate the algorithms of death perfectly encapsulates the total capitulation of the conciliar sect to the technocratic New World Order.
The Prostitution of Theology to the Military-Industrial Complex
The scholars said they agreed that AI “ought not to be used for mass domestic surveillance,” citing the Catholic Church’s teachings on privacy. They pointed to the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s instruction that “no one is bound to reveal the truth to someone who does not have the right to know it.”
Here we witness the reduction of the immutable moral law to a procedural guideline for bureaucratic management. These “theologians” do not condemn the intrinsic evil of the surveillance state as a manifestation of the mysterium iniquitatis foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess 2:7); they merely haggle over “boundaries” with the very architects of the Panopticon. They cite the modernist Catechism — a document crafted to accommodate the novus ordo religion of man — while ignoring the Syllabus of Errors where Pope Pius IX anathematized the proposition that “the civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and that “the civil law prevails” in conflict with ecclesiastical law (Error 42). By submitting their brief to a Masonic judiciary — the D.C. Circuit, an organ of a state that has legally exterminated sixty million infants — they implicitly recognize the competence of the City of Man to define the limits of the City of God. This is the heresy of Americanism condemned by Leo XIII in *Testem Benevolentiae*: the delusion that the Church can accommodate herself to the “liberties” of the modern state without betraying her Divine Spouse.
The Linguistic Camouflage of “Human Dignity” and “Responsible Innovation”
Autonomous weapons, meanwhile, “obscure human agency” and shift responsibility “away from human decision-makers to machines.” “They accelerate the already rapid military decision-making processes, perhaps to the point of eliminating even the possibility of human involvement,” the scholars said, arguing that “practical judgment and careful decision-making” should “inform all human decisions,” particularly involving life and death.
Observe the sterile, technocratic vocabulary: “human agency,” “decision-making processes,” “practical judgment.” Not a whisper of sin, eternal judgment, the Sixth Commandment, or the Kingship of Christ. The word “evil” appears only as a generic possibility in a quote from the antipope Benedict XVI (“appalling possibilities for evil”), stripped of its theological density. This is the language of the Civitas Terrena, precisely the “secularism” and “laicism” denounced by Pius XI in *Quas Primas*: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” These “theologians” function as chaplains to the algorithmic Moloch, sprinkling holy water on the Pentagon’s kill chains while ensuring the machine runs “responsibly.” They are the clerici vagantes of the Apocalypse, crying “Peace, peace” where there is no peace (Jer 6:14).
The Theological Vacuum: No Christ, No King, No Grace
The brief is a masterclass in practical atheism. It treats war — the summum malum of temporal existence — as a technical optimization problem. Where is the Social Reign of Christ the King? Pius XI, in the very encyclical instituting the Feast of Christ the King (*Quas Primas*, provided in context), thundered: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… For what we wrote at the beginning of Our Pontificate about the diminishing authority of law and respect for power, the same can be applied to the present times: ‘When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.'”
These conciliar “scholars” do not demand that the Pentagon submit to the lex Christi; they ask a secular court to enforce “normative boundaries” defined by a Silicon Valley corporation (Anthropic) whose very business model is the simulation of human reason — a simulacrum of the Imago Dei. They quote the antipope Leo XIV’s *Magnifica Humanitas* — a document non-existent in the Catholic tradition, fabricated by a manifest heretic (Robert Prevost) who, by the principle ipso facto articulated by St. Robert Bellarmine and Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code (see *Defense of Sedevacantism* context), ceased to hold any office the moment he embraced the modernist heresies of Vatican II. To cite an antipope as “Holy Father” and his encyclical as authoritative is idolatry, a violation of the First Commandment masquerading as theological discourse.
The Symptomatic Rot: Vatican II’s “Gaudium et Spes” Bearing Its Poisoned Fruit
This episode is the inevitable fruit of the conciliar revolution. *Gaudium et Spes* §78-82 inaugurated the dialogue with the world on the world’s terms, replacing the Social Kingship of Christ with “human dignity” as the supreme principle. The result: conciliar “ethicists” now serve as ethical validators for the Merchants of Death. The “U.S. bishops’ task force on AI” mentioned in the article is the concilium of the synagoga Satanae (Pius IX, *Allocution to the Bishops of Prussia*), coordinating the sanitization of the Antichrist’s infrastructure.
Pope Leo XIV, meanwhile, has been a global voice urging caution on AI, including with his landmark May encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, in which the Holy Father warned that the “pervasive technocratic paradigm” of which AI is a part “threatens to normalize an antihuman vision.”
Antipope Leo XIV (Prevost) is the false prophet of the technocratic beast. His “caution” is the caution of the wolf shepherding the sheep into the digital slaughterhouse. The “distinction between human art and machine art” he demands is the mark of the beast (Apoc 13:16-17) — a biometric, algorithmic branding of the human soul. The conciliar “theologians” cheer him on, for they are of the same spirit: the spirit of *Lamentabili Sane Exitu* (1907), where St. Pius X condemned the modernist errors that “truth changes with man” (Prop. 58), that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish… became Greek and universal” (Prop. 60), and that “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics” (Prop. 63). These “theologians” prove Prop. 63 true — but only for the conciliar sect, which is not the Church.
The Only True Boundary: The Crown Rights of Christ the King
The only “defined normative boundary” that saves souls and orders societies is the public confession of the Kingship of Christ over all nations, laws, armies, and algorithms. As Pius XI taught: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” (*Quas Primas*). The Pentagon, the D.C. Circuit, Anthropic, and the conciliar “theologians” advising them are all in rebellion against this Kingship. They negotiate the terms of surrender to the Prince of this World (Jn 12:31), while the true Church — Ecclesia militans in the catacombs of Tradition — proclaims: Non praevalebunt (Mt 16:18). The gates of hell, whether guarded by silicon or steel, shall not prevail against the Petra of Peter’s Faith, which remains whole and inviolate in the sedevacantist resistance that rejects every antipope, every false council, and every “ethical framework” that does not begin and end with Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat.
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Catholic moral theologians urge federal court to support ‘clear boundaries’ around military AI usage (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 21.10.2026