EWTN News portal reports on the “Builders AI Forum” held November 5–6, 2026, at the “Pontifical Gregorian University” in Rome, an event centered on the fictitious encyclical Magnifica Humanitas of the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The gathering convened “Cardinal” Michael Czerny, SJ, prefect of the “Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development” and founder of the “inter-dicastery commission on artificial intelligence,” alongside “Dicastery for Communication” prefect Maria Montserrat “Montse” Alvarado, “Bishop” Stephen Wang of Arundel and Brighton, and various tech entrepreneurs peddling “Catholic AI” products like Magisterium AI and Hallow. The forum’s rhetoric revolved around “dialogue,” “accompaniment,” “alignment,” and “responsible development” – the vacuous lexicon of the neo-church. This spectacle manifests the conciliar sect’s definitive apostasy: substituting the regnum Christi for a technocratic city of man, and the Magisterium for algorithms.
The Antichurch’s Embrace of Technocratic Idolatry
The very premise of the “Builders AI Forum” – “supporting the development of AI products that serve the Church’s mission” – reveals a naturalistic inversion of the Church’s divine constitution. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that Christ’s Kingdom “extends not only to 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.” The Church’s mission is salus animarum, the salvation of souls through the Unbloody Sacrifice and the sacraments, not the optimization of “AI products” for “evangelization, healthcare, education, and building and scaling AI.” The “Cardinal” Czerny’s declaration that “we cannot treat learning as an isolated, transactional process but rather a communal, dialogue form” echoes the condemned Modernist proposition that revelation is a “religious movement” evolving with the times (Lamentabili sane exitu, prop. 59). This “dialogue” is the hermeneutic of continuity weaponized: a perpetual conversation that never arrives at Truth, because Truth – Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb 13:8) – has been dethroned in favor of “process.”
“Magnifica Humanitas”: A Manifesto for the Cult of Man
The forum’s centering on the antipope Leo XIV’s “encyclical” Magnifica Humanitas (a title redolent of Masonic humanism) signifies the neo-church’s official religion: the cult of man. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemns the proposition that “the civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people” (Error 79) and that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The “Builders AI Forum” is the practical application of Error 80: a “reconciliation” with the technological project of the New World Order. The “prefect” Alvarado’s question – “Who are we supposed to be as we develop and shape this technology?” – betrays a gnostic anthropology: man as self-creator, shaping his own destiny through technique, rather than a creature ordered to his Creator. Homo factus est ut Deus creatorem suum coleret (Man was made to worship God his Creator). The forum inverts this: man is made to worship his own artifacts.
The “Cardinal” Czerny and the Dialogue of the Deaf
“Cardinal” Czerny’s lament – “we are all impacted by AI but nobody’s listening [to one another]” – is the quintessential conciliar complaint. It presupposes that the crisis of the Church is a crisis of communication, not of faith. St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis identified Modernism’s root: “the pursuit of novelty… leads to deplorable consequences, abandoning all restraint.” Czerny’s “inter-dicastery commission on artificial intelligence” is a bureaucratic monstrosity unknown to the Corpus Iuris Canonici (1917). Canon 188.4 declares that an office becomes vacant “by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: … 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “Cardinal” Czerny, by participating in this technocratic pantheon, by treating the Depositum Fidei as data for “alignment,” manifests public defection. His “listening” is the listening of the synodus – a Masonic parody of the Ecumenical Council, where the Holy Ghost is excluded and the “people of God” (a Masonic category) sovereignly determine doctrine.
Magisterium AI and Hallow: Digital Simulacra of Grace
The promotion of “Magisterium AI” and “Hallow” as tools for “priestly formation” and “prayer” constitutes a sacrilegious simulation of the supernatural order. “Bishop” Wang states: “so many people are discovering the faith or seeking answers to their questions through the internet, through AI… this is the starting point.” This is fideism inverted: faith comes not ex auditu (Rom 10:17) by the preaching of validly ordained ministers, but ex algorithmo. The CEO of Hallow, Erich Kerekes, admits: “prayer is fundamentally a relationship… that is something AI will never be able to come up with.” Yet his app mediates that relationship through a profit-driven, data-harvesting platform. Alvarado’s distinction – “The message can’t be communicated by AI. It’s communicated through AI. AI is not a person, AI is a tool” – is a distinction without a difference. Lex orandi, lex credendi. If the lex orandi becomes an app interface, the lex credendi becomes user-experience design. The “Venerable English College” in Rome, cited by Wang, has become a factory for “priests” formed by algorithms, not by the Spiritus Sanctus through the Traditio. This is the abomination of desolation (Matt 24:15) standing in the holy place: the silicon idol in the sanctuary of the soul.
Accountability Without Truth: The Secularist Trap
Megan Garcia’s tragic testimony – her son’s suicide induced by a chatbot – is exploited to demand “accountability” and “third-party release testing.” This is the secularist solution: more regulation, more “safeguards,” more state power. The Syllabus condemns the error that “the civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and that “in the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails” (Error 42). The forum’s answer to the demonic manipulation of children by AI is not the Exorcism, not the Rosary, not the Social Reign of Christ the King (Pius XI, Quas Primas), but “policy” and “accountability.” Salus populi suprema lex esto – but the salus here is temporal safety, not eternal salvation. The “builders” want to “start from the world and what you want to build and work backwards” (Sanders). This is the definition of naturalism: building the City of Man without reference to the City of God. St. Augustine warns: Duo civitates amores duo condiderunt: terrenam scilicet amor sui usque ad contemptum Dei; caelestem vero amor Dei usque ad contemptum sui (Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by love of self even to contempt of God; the heavenly by love of God even to contempt of self). The “Builders AI Forum” is the annual general meeting of the earthly city.
The “Bishop” Wang’s Surrender to Algorithmic Formation
“Bishop” Wang’s reflection that “young men coming into seminary are already immersed in AI, so it is important to give them the tools for discernment” capitulates to the spirit of the world. The Council of Trent (Sess. XXIII, can. 4) anathematizes those who say that “bishops… are not superior to priests.” But here, the “bishop” surrenders his munus docendi to a Large Language Model. The “holistic formation” he praises is the formation of the natural man (1 Cor 2:14), not the spiritual man. The “Venerable English College,” once a nursery of martyrs for the Missa Tridentina and the Primatus Petri, now hosts seminarians “immersed in AI.” Quo vadis? The “tools for discernment” are the Summa Theologiae, the Catechism of the Council of Trent, the Breviarium Romanum, the Missale Romanum (1962) – not a chatbot trained on the corrupted texts of the conciliar “magisterium.” Wang’s “Magisterium AI” is a Golem: a creature of clay (data) animated by the shem (prompt engineering) of Modernists, destined to turn on its makers.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in Digital Form
The “Builders AI Forum” is not a pastoral initiative; it is a Masonic psychological operation (cf. False Fatima Apparitions file on Masonic 200-year cycles: 1717, 1917, 2017 – now 2026, the digital phase). It fulfills the prophecy of Lamentabili sane exitu (prop. 65): “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism.” The “Catholic AI” is the Protestantization of the intellect: private judgment amplified by silicon. The true Church, the Ecclesia Militans, endures in the catacombs of Tradition, celebrating the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary according to the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V, governed by bishops with valid Orders and jurisdiction (cf. Defense of Sedevacantism on Bellarmine: a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto). The structures occupying the Vatican – the “Dicasteries,” the “Pontifical Universities,” the “EWTN” media apparatus – are the synagoga Satanae (Apoc 2:9). They have “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). Their “AI” is the image of the beast (Apoc 13:15), given breath to speak and cause that as many as would not adore the image of the beast should be slain – spiritually, by the novus ordo of algorithmic apostasy. Non possumus. We do not dialogue with the builders of Babel; we denounce them. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
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‘We are all impacted by AI but nobody’s listening’ to one another, cardinal warns at conference (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.11.2026