Conciliar Portal Promotes Pragmatic Resistance to AI While Citing Antipope’s Fabricated Encyclical
The National Catholic Register — a flagship organ of the conciliar sect — publishes a commentary by Ken Burchfiel arguing that religious schools should resist artificial intelligence based on parental survey data and academic studies showing impaired learning outcomes. The piece culminates in a citation of a non-existent encyclical Magnifica Humanitas attributed to the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), revealing the article’s true nature: a naturalistic, utilitarian maneuver that substitutes statistical trends for the regnum Christi and legitimate Magisterium for a false pope’s fabricated utterances.
The Conciliar Sect’s Utilitarian Mimicry of Catholic Concern
The cited article presents itself as a defense of “religious schools” against technological encroachment. Yet its entire argumentative architecture rests on sociological surveys, OECD metrics, and enrollment statistics — the lingua franca of secular technocracy, not the language of the Church. Nowhere does Burchfiel invoke the divina revelatio, the magisterium authenticum, or the finis ultimus of Catholic education: the salvation of souls and the formation of alter Christus. The “religious schools” in question are manifestly those of the post-conciliar structure, which since 1958 have replaced the integral faith with a humanitarianism baptized in sentimental piety.
The article’s thesis — that AI should be paused because parents want it paused and test scores drop — is pelagian in its anthropology and naturalistic in its epistemology. It treats children as data points to be optimized, not as immortal souls to be conformed to Christus Rex. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” — not in the kingdom of algorithmic efficiency or parental preference polling.
The Fabricated Encyclical and the Usurper’s Voice
The most damning evidence of the article’s apostatic pedigree is its closing citation:
In his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV writes: “When human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human.”
This “encyclical” does not exist in the treasury of the Church. It is a literary fiction attributed to Robert Prevost, the current usurper occupying the Vatican since the death of the antipope Bergoglio. The line of usurpers — John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV — constitutes an unbroken chain of manifest heretics who have automatically lost all jurisdiction ipso facto by their public defection from the Catholic Faith (Canon 188 §4; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio; Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice).
St. Robert Bellarmine declares: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30). The conciliar sect’s “popes” have publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), collegiality subverting papal primacy (Lumen Gentium), and the new mass expressing a protestantized ecclesiology. Each “encyclical” they issue is null, void, and of no effect — irritum et inane — as Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio infallibly teaches regarding any elevation of a heretic.
The Register’s citation of this phantom document exposes its idolatrous submission to a false magisterium. It would have the faithful obey a usurper’s fabricated words rather than the immutable doctrine of Quas Primas, Pascendi Dominici Gregis, or the Syllabus Errorum.
Classical Education Without the True Faith: A Gilded Cage
Burchfiel celebrates the growth of “classical education” networks — “264 schools added between 2019-20 and 2023-24, a 21% increase” — as evidence that parents desire “enduring truths and growth in virtue.” But virtue without the virtutes infusae of sanctifying grace is mere natural ethics, incapable of supernatural merit. The “classical schools” of the conciliar sect — whether FSSP, Institute of Christ the King, or diocesan — operate within the novus ordo framework, accepting the false popes, the false council, and the false sacraments of the new rite.
Pius XI in Quas Primas insists: “Christ reigns in the minds of men… because He Himself is Truth, and men must draw truth from Him and accept it obediently.” A “classical education” that teaches Latin and logic while submitting to the abominatio desolationis in the Vatican teaches truth mixed with lethal poison. As St. Cyprian warns: “He cannot have God for his Father who has not the Church for his mother” (De Unitate Ecclesiae, 6). The “Church” these schools serve is the pseudo-church of the New Advent — a synagoga Satanae (Apoc. 2:9) occupying the visible structures.
The Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The article’s total silence on the sacramental order, the state of grace, the Four Last Things, and the Social Kingship of Christ is its definitive theological fingerprint. It discusses AI as a pedagogical tool, not as a potential instrument of the Antichristus foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-10 — the “man of sin” who “sits in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God.” The conciliar sect’s “religious schools” have long since abandoned the propitiatory Sacrifice of the True Mass for the cena luterana of the Novus Ordo Missae, invalid in form and intention as a sacrifice (Breve Examen Critico of Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci).
When Burchfiel writes that “students will have plenty of opportunities to apply AI tools after they graduate”, he reveals the eschatological vacuity of his vision. The true Catholic educator knows that the child’s primary “opportunity after graduation” is judicium particulare — the particular judgment — and that every moment of education must be ordered to vita aeterna, not to “future employment” in a world “in maligno positus” (1 John 5:19).
Parental Rights Subverted to the Regnum Christi
The article’s reliance on parental surveys — “79% of parents of religious-school students support pausing the introduction of AI” — inverts the Catholic hierarchy of authority. Parents have the jus et officium to educate their children in fide, not to dictate curriculum by plebiscite. Pius XI in Divini Illius Magistri (1929) teaches: “The family holds directly from the Creator the mission and hence the right of education… but this right is subordinate to the divine law and the Church’s authority.”
The conciliar sect’s “religious schools” have already surrendered to the laicism condemned in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Now they would make educational decisions by vox populi rather than vox Dei. The survey data is not a sign of health but of the complete naturalization of the educational apostolate.
AI as Symptom, Not Cause: The Conciliar Revolution’s Logical Terminus
The article treats AI as an external threat to be managed. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, AI is the logical terminus of the conciliar revolution’s anthropocentrism. The Gaudium et Spes anthropology — man as “the only creature on earth which God willed for itself” (GS 24) — inevitably produces a technology that simulates human reason without a soul. The “personalized education” AI promises is the parousia of the homo autonomus — the self-referential man who “erit sicut Deus” (Gen. 3:5).
St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis condemned the Modernist error that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Lamentabili Sane Exitu, prop. 58). AI embodies this heresy: a “truth” generated by algorithmic consensus, detached from Veritas Ipsa. The conciliar sect’s schools, having swallowed the Modernist poison for sixty years, now face its technological crystallization — and their only response is a pragmatic pause based on test scores.
The Only Remedy: Restaurare Omnia in Christo
The article concludes with a platitude: “What they need from religious schools right now is not the latest ed-tech trend, but an authentically human experience.” But an “authentically human experience” severed from the hypostatic union is a contradiction in terms. Pius XI defines the foundation of Christ’s Kingship: “He possesses dominion over all creatures, not by force but by essence and nature… through the hypostatic union, Christ has authority over all creatures” (Quas Primas, citing St. Cyril of Alexandria).
True Catholic education exists only where the True Mass is offered, the True Faith is taught without admixture, and validly ordained priests govern under bishops who have not defected. This exists nowhere in the structures occupying the Vatican or their “religious schools” — whether they use AI or slate tablets. The Register’s commentary is a rearranging of deck chairs on the Titanic of the conciliar apostasy.
“Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvari” (Acts 4:12). No survey, no classical curriculum, no “pause” on technology — and certainly no fabricated encyclical of a usurper — can substitute for the una, sancta, catholica, et apostolica Ecclesia which subsists in the remnant faithful to the integral Tradition prior to 1958. Sede vacante since 1958; the See of Peter awaits a true successor. Until then, “Qui non est mecum, contra me est” (Matt. 12:30).
Source:
Why Religious Schools Should Think Twice Before Embracing AI (ncregister.com)
Date: 12.11.2026