The National Catholic Register portal (October 21, 2026) publishes a commentary by George Weigel, the doyen of neoconservative Catholicism, extolling the first encyclical of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), titled Magnifica Humanitas. Weigel argues that the conciliar sect’s primary response to artificial intelligence must be “evangelization” — understood not as the proclamation of the integral Catholic Faith for the conversion of souls to the one true Church, but as a dialogue with Silicon Valley oligarchs to persuade them that humans are “creatures of a Creator” rather than “bipedal algorithms.” The cited article relates how Weigel and the modernist “Cardinal” Grzegorz Ryś find common ground in the encyclical’s assertion that AI lacks consciousness, a body, moral conscience, and the capacity for love. This entire discourse is a diabolical simulacrum of the Church’s mission: it replaces the missio ad gentes and the Social Kingship of Christ with a technocratic anthropology that capitulates to the very modernism the Syllabus condemns.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Supernatural End
The commentary opens with Weigel’s flippant quip that AI developers “don’t know the difference between metaphysics and Metamucil.” This vulgarity sets the tone: the crisis of the age is treated as a category error of epistemology rather than a rebellion against the Lex Divina. Weigel cites Peggy Noonan’s observation that Silicon Valley elites live in a world where “God was like a thing on TV,” invoking the hackneyed Chesterton trope about believing in “anything.” Nowhere does Weigel — nor the encyclical he praises — declare that these men are ipso facto condemned by their unbelief (John 3:18), that they are enslaved to the princeps huius mundi (John 12:31), or that the only remedy is baptismal regeneration and submission to the Regnum Christi.
The “evangelization” proposed is a purely naturalistic enterprise: “persuade those developing AI… that we are creatures of a Creator.” This is the heresy of naturalism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum (Prop. 3: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood”). The conciliar sect’s “Creator” is the vague deity of the philosophers, not the Trinitas Sancta revealed in Scripture and Tradition. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ… When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Weigel’s project seeks to build a “humanism” on the ruins of Christ’s Kingship.
The Linguistic Camouflage of Apostasy
The rhetoric employed is a masterclass in modernist equivocation. Terms like “human uniqueness,” “flourishing,” “solidarity,” “wisdom,” and “moral conscience” are stripped of their supernatural referents. The encyclical passage quoted at length (para. 99) describes AI as lacking “affective, relational, and spiritual perspective.” This “spiritual perspective” is presented as an immanent human capacity, not the gratia sanctificans elevating man to the ordo supernaturalis. The document speaks of “human intelligence” as a faculty of “data processing” superior in kind but not in order to algorithmic simulation. This is the evolutionism of dogma condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 58: “Truth changes with man… Truth develops with him, in him, and through him”).
Weigel’s reference to “the biblical story of humanity, its origins, nature, and destiny” as “what the Church knows” is a Protestantized, narrative theology. The true Church knows the Depositum Fidei — the immutable truths defined by the extraordinary and ordinary Magisterium. The conciliar sect replaces Credo with “story,” Veritas with “narrative.”
The Theological Vacuum: No Christ, No Cross, No Church
The most damning indictment is the total absence of the Holy Name of Jesus Christ as Rex Regum, the necessity of the Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), the reality of Original Sin, the reality of Hell, and the Final Judgment. The “Cardinal” Ryś and Weigel agree the “crucial teaching” is anthropological: distinguishing human from artificial intelligence. This is the anthropocentric turn of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes (n. 22), here weaponized to baptize the digital revolution.
The encyclical’s admission that AI “does not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences” inadvertently exposes the conciliar sect’s own bankruptcy. For sixty years, this sect has taught that conscience is autonomous, that religious liberty is a right, that the state is not bound to confess Christ. Having surrendered the jus publicum of the Church to the secular order (contra Quas Primas, Immortale Dei, Libertas Praestantissimum), it now begs the masters of the new technological order for a seat at the table.
The Symptomatic Level: The Whore of Babylon’s Digital Makeover
This commentary is a symptom of the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican. The antipope Leo XIV issues an encyclical on AI — a topic of purely temporal concern — while the conciliar sect:
- Promulgates the Novus Ordo Missae, a Protestantized memorial meal invalidating the Sacrificium Propitiatorium;
- Canonizes heretics (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II) and pseudo-mystics (Faustina Kowalska);
- Promotes the Masonic “Fatima” operation as documented in the theological objections: “The centralized role of the Church and the sacraments is undermined by the demand for ‘hyper-acts’ of worship”;
- Embraces the heresy of ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), denying the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith;
- Submits to the Dignitatis Humanae heresy, granting a “right” to error.
Weigel, a lay apologist for the usurpers, functions as a laicus clericalizatus, legitimizing the paramasonic structure. His “Ethics and Public Policy Center” is a cog in the machine of “Americanism” condemned by Leo XIII (Testem Benevolentiae). The task force of the US “bishops” on “religious liberty, democratic institutions, online child safety” is a surrender to the Masonic state. As Pius IX teaches in the Syllabus (Prop. 55): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” — this is the error the conciliar sect has made its operating principle.
The Sedevacantist Imperative: Ipso Facto Loss of Office
The very existence of “Pope Leo XIV” and his encyclical confirms the sedevacantist thesis. A manifest heretic cannot be Pope. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice): “A Pope who is 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.” The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file demonstrates that Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares an office vacant ipso facto upon “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The antipope’s encyclical, by promoting a naturalistic “evangelization” devoid of the Social Kingship of Christ, constitutes such a public defection. Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares the elevation of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect” ab initio.
The example of Nestorius, cited in the Defense file, is decisive: “He who has departed from the faith with such preaching cannot depose or remove anyone.” The conciliar “bishops” (Ryś, et al.) derive no jurisdiction from the usurper. Their “task forces” and “synods” are nulla et irrita.
Conclusion: The Only True Intelligence is the Lumen Gloriae
The article’s final sentence — “That is what the Church knows. And that is what we must proclaim” — is a blasphemous parody of the Great Commission. The true Church, the Ecclesia Militans persevering in the catacombs of Tradition, knows that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). She knows that AI, like every tool of the Antichrist, will be destroyed by the spiritus oris eius (2 Thess 2:8). She does not “dialogue” with the builders of the Tower of Babel 2.0; she anathematizes them.
“Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). This is the only “evangelization” that saves: the proclamation of the Rights of God and the Kingship of Christ over all creation, silicon and soul alike. The conciliar sect’s “Magnifica Humanitas” is a magnifica impostura — a magnificent fraud.
Source:
AI and Evangelization (ncregister.com)
Date: 21.10.2026