Vatican News portal (October 28, 2026) publishes an interview with the conciliar presbyter Philip Larrey, professor at the modernist Boston College, regarding a formation course for cloistered nuns on “Artificial Intelligence” organized by the “Ad Bonum Facere ETS Foundation” at the Istituto Maria Santissima Bambina in Rome. The event, held under the auspices of the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and his fictitious encyclical Magnifica humanitas, aims to instruct contemplative religious in the “proper use” of AI for administrative and legal tasks. This initiative manifests the total apostasy of the conciliar sect: it drags the cloister — the fortress of ora et labora ordered to the unicus necessarius (the one thing necessary) — into the vortex of worldly efficiency, legitimizing the digital revolution as a new “sign of the times” while the Bride of Christ is eclipsed by the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place.
The Factual Level: A Staged Surrender to the Spirit of the World
The article reports that the “Ad Bonum Facere ETS Foundation” — a juridical construct of the civil order (ETS = Ente del Terzo Settore, Third Sector Entity) — convened Capuchin Poor Clares, Poor Clares, Benedictines, and Discalced Carmelites for a two-day course (October 27-28) on “Women’s Monasteries in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” The president, Sr. Chiara Francesca Lacchini, presided over this “roundtable discussion on the human person, communication, and new technologies in dialogue with Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica humanitas.”
I think we need to understand the tools and the technology, even for those cloistered nuns who are dedicated exclusively to religious life. This is a phenomenon that is sweeping the world and changing society in fundamental ways.
Fr. Larrey admits the initial “perplexity” — a euphemism for the glaring contradiction — but resolves it by invoking the “interaction between the nuns and the rest of the world.” He concedes AI cannot help “in terms of their spiritual and prayer lives” (a stunning concession: the raison d’être of the cloister is declared impervious to the proposed “tool”), yet insists the sisters “have to deal with the rest of the world” and thus “need to master [AI] in their own way.” Concrete examples cited: dealing with real estate agents, lawyers, procuring provisions.
This is not pastoral care; it is institutional capitulation. The cloister grille (clausura), established by canonical law (Canon 595, 1917 Code; Perfectae Caritatis perverted by Vatican II) to protect the vacuum Dei from secular contamination, is here voluntarily breached by the very authorities charged with its defense. The “Foundation” itself, a civil-law entity, signifies the subjection of monastic autonomy to the secular state — a direct violation of the Church’s liberty (Libertas Ecclesiae), condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 19, 20, 55) and reaffirmed by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “The Church… demands for itself by a right belonging to it… full freedom and independence from secular authority.”
The Linguistic Level: Bureaucratic Newspeak Masking Spiritual Death
The rhetoric is saturated with the lexicon of the world: “formation course,” “practical responsibilities,” “canonical, legal, financial, and administrative responsibilities,” “pool expertise and resources,” “safeguard heritage,” “respond to contemporary challenges,” “stay up to date,” “reap benefits as an entire society.” The vocabulary of the City of Man has colonized the vocabulary of the City of God. There is no mention of sanctifying grace, theosis, victim souls, reparation, the four last things, or the Social Kingship of Christ.
Fr. Larrey speaks of “hallucinations” (AI errors) and “Magisterium AI” (a Catholic-themed search engine) with the casualness of a tech consultant. He cites the antipope’s encyclical Magnifica humanitas — a title blasphemously parodying the Magnificat and the true dignity of man found only in Christ — as a guiding light, placing it on par with Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum. This is the hermeneutic of rupture masquerading as continuity: a false pope invoking a false predecessor to bless a false revolution (Digital vs. Industrial).
The phrase “conscientious use of AI” is an oxymoron. One cannot “conscientiously” integrate a system defined by its architects as a “black box” of probabilistic mimicry, devoid of intellect (intellectus) and will, into a life vowed to Truth Himself (Ego sum Veritas, Jn 14:6). The language reveals the naturalistic reduction of the religious vocation to NGO management.
The Theological Level: Violation of the Cloister’s Ontological Separation
The theology of the cloister is rooted in the mysterium Ecclesiae: the contemplative life is the heart of the Church, pumping supernatural life into the Body Mystical through hidden prayer and sacrifice. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches (II-II, q. 188, a. 6) that the contemplative life surpasses the active because it adheres directly to God. The enclosure (clausura) is not a mere disciplinary barrier but a sacramental sign of the Church’s eschatological orientation — non habemus hic manentem civitatem (Heb 13:14).
Pope Leo even mentions in the encyclical that human beings were meant to enter into relationships with other human beings, not with machines.
The antipope is quoted to justify the very intrusion he ostensibly warns against. This is the dialectic of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 59: “Truth changes with man… Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples”). The “digital revolution” becomes a new locus of revelation, supplementing the Deposit of Faith.
The article reveals the kenosis of the conciliar “religious”: they are no longer spouses of Christ crucified to the world (Gal 6:14), but “stakeholders” managing “heritage” and “solidarity initiatives.” The “unborn child” of contemplative fruitfulness is aborted for the sake of administrative efficiency with real estate agents. This is the cult of man denounced by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Here, Christ the King is removed from the cloister’s governance, replaced by algorithms.
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code (cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism file) states an office becomes vacant by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” By embracing the world’s spirit (AI, digital revolution, antipope’s encyclical) as formative for their vocation, these superiors defect from the spiritus Ecclesiae. They cannot claim ignorance; the Syllabus (Error 80) condemns the proposition: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” The conciliar sect does exactly this, dragging cloistered souls into its apostasy.
The Symptomatic Level: The Antichurch’s Systematic Dismantling of the Sacred
This event is not an anomaly; it is the logical fruit of Vatican II’s Perfectae Caritatis and Gaudium et Spes, which opened the religious life to “aggiornamento” — adaptation to the world. The “Ad Bonum Facere Foundation” (founded 2025) is a structural instrument of the neo-church to secularize monastic assets and personnel under the guise of “solidarity.” It mirrors the Masonic strategy of infiltration: Stage 1 (implanted message), Stage 2 (globalization of cult), Stage 3 (takeover by modernists) — as analyzed in the False Fatima Apparitions file regarding the Fatima operation, here applied to the cloister itself.
The reference to “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) as the authority behind Magnifica humanitas confirms the sedevacantist thesis: the See of Peter is vacant (Sedes Vacans). As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice, cited in Defense of Sedevacantism), a manifest heretic “by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head.” The line of usurpers from John XXIII onward has publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality — formal heresy severing them from the Church’s membership (membrum Ecclesiae), and thus from the Headship (Bellarmine: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore cannot be Pope”).
Therefore, the “encyclical” is waste paper, the “Foundation” a civil association without canonical mission, the “course” a workshop for the laity masquerading as religious formation. The nuns, if they retain valid vows (doubtful given the novus ordo profession formulas and dubious ordinations of their confessors), are being led by hirelings (mercenarii, Jn 10:12) into the wolf’s den of technology.
The silence on the Social Kingship of Christ — the very feast instituted by Pius XI on the last Sunday of October (providentially near this date) — is deafening. Quas Primas declares: “If rulers of states… wish to maintain their authority inviolate… let them fulfill this duty… of public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The conciliar sect replaces Christ the King with “AI the Tool,” the City of God with the “Smart City,” the Monastery with the “Hub.”
Conclusion: The Cloister Betrayed, The Faith Preserved Only in Resistance
This Vatican News piece is a manifesto of the antichurch: the cloister, the last bastion of integral Tradition, is targeted for colonization by the digital antichrist. The “proper use of AI” is the novus ordo of technological idolatry. True daughters of St. Clare, St. Benedict, St. Teresa — those who keep the Rule and the Faith entire — must flee this contamination. They must recognize that the structures occupying the Vatican are the abomination of desolation (Mt 24:15), that “Pope” Leo XIV is a usurper, and that no “Foundation,” no “course,” no “encyclical” from this source binds the conscience.
The true Ad Bonum Facere — “To Do Good” — is Non praevalebunt (Mt 16:18). The gates of hell, whether digital or conciliar, shall not prevail against the Church of Christ, which subsists in those bishops and faithful who hold fast to the Tradition of the Fathers, the Mass of All Time, and the Social Kingship of Christ the King. Let the dead bury their dead (Mt 8:22); the cloister belongs to the Living God alone.
Source:
Fr. Philip Larrey: Monastic Life could benefit from proper use of AI (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.10.2026