EWTN News portal reports on a “hackathon” held at the so-called “Pontifical University of the Holy Cross” in Rome on November 7, 2026, where self-styled tech leaders, “clergy,” and “educators” gathered to “reimagine parish life in the age of artificial intelligence” under the inspiration of the antipope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. The event, organized by the “Catholic Digital Commons Foundation” and the “Evangelization Lab,” produced software prototypes for liturgical calendars, databases for “religious orders,” and “AI-governance tools for parishes,” with plans to expand this digital farce to four United States dioceses in early 2027. This spectacle manifests the total substitution of the Church’s divine mission for the salvation of souls with a naturalistic, technocratic project of human self-redemption through code.
The Antipope’s “Magnifica Humanitas”: The Manifesto of the Religion of Man
The very title of the antipope’s encyclical — Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) — reveals the anthropocentric apostasy at the heart of the conciliar sect. No true Vicar of Christ would entitle a magisterial document with a paean to man; the only magnificent humanity is the Humanity of the God-Man, Christ Jesus, King of Kings. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: “Christ reigns in the minds of men… because He Himself is Truth, and men must draw truth from Him and accept it obediently.” The conciliar “pope” inverts this order: man becomes the measure, the builder, the savior. The hackathon is the liturgical enactment of this heresy — a gathering where “coding meets faith,” where the Logos is reduced to algorithm, and the Holy Ghost is replaced by artificial intelligence.
Profanation of the Academic Title: “Pontifical University” in Service of the Neo-Church
The event took place at the “Pontifical University of the Holy Cross,” an institution of the conciliar sect that usurps the title “pontifical” while serving the revolution. No university loyal to Christ the King would host a “hackathon” to “reimagine parish life” — the parish exists for the worship of God and the salvation of souls through the Sacraments, not for “digital evangelization” prototypes. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the error that “the civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41); here, the technological state, the spirit of the age, dictates the form of “parish life.” The university, like the entire conciliar structure, has become a laboratory for the novus ordo saeculorum.
The “Clergy” as Technocrats: “Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP” and the Databases of Apostasy
The article features “Father Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP, promoter general for Social Communication of the Order of Preachers,” who boasts of building a database to access “hundreds of years of documents… for formation, content creation, and governance.” Note the triad: formation, content creation, governance — not sanctification, preaching, sacrifice. The Dominican charism, founded for the salvation of souls through truth, is perverted into data management. “Typical PDF searches are complex, inefficient, and often incomplete,” he complains — as if the inefficiency of digital search were a crisis of the Church. The true crisis is the absence of the sensus fidei, the loss of the supernatural vision. A “priest” who measures his apostolate by database query speed has already lost the priesthood.
“Sr. Nancy Usselmann, FSP”: The Feminine Face of the Digital Apostasy
“Sister Nancy Usselmann, FSP, director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies” calls the hackathon “a phenomenal learning experience of profound collaboration between pastoral leaders and builders.” She speaks the language of the world: “collaboration,” “builders,” “opportunities,” “relationships for the Gospel” — but the Gospel of Christ crucified is nowhere present. The Daughters of St. Paul, once dedicated to the printed word of truth, now serve the digital image. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu condemned the proposition: “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Prop. 6). Here, the “Church listening” is the tech world, and the “builders” are the new magisterium.
José Manuel De Urquidi and the “Evangelization Lab”: The Entrepreneur of the Neo-Church
The founder of the “Evangelization Lab” declares: “The Church as an institution can be slow and risk-averse… A hackathon brings a few involved Catholics and a coder to the same table for a whole day, and by evening they have something they can actually try in real life.” This is the voice of the revolutionary: the Church is an “institution” to be disrupted, “risk-averse” because it guards the deposit of faith, “slow” because it moves at the pace of eternity. The “same table” of coder and “Catholic” is the masonic table of equality, where the hierarchy of truth is flattened. He demands bishops “not only have to bless it but also support it” — the laity commanding the successors of the Apostles (or their counterfeits) to fund their innovation. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” These men defect by substituting the opus Dei with the opus hominis.
Taylor Black and the “Builder’s Vocation”: The Pelagianism of the Digital Age
Taylor Black, “executive director of the Leonum Institute at The Catholic University of America,” proclaims: “Pope Leo emphasizes the builder’s vocation in the Church, and it starts with sitting down with the people who do the work and creating something they can try together.” This is raw Pelagianism: man builds, man creates, man “tries together.” The Church’s vocation is not to build digital tools but to build the City of God through the Cross. Pius XI in Quas Primas warns: “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.” The “builder’s vocation” derives authority from human ingenuity, not from Christ the King. The “Leonum Institute” at a “Catholic University” — both usurping Catholic names — serves the anti-Christ.
The Projects: Digital Idols for a Godless “Parish Life”
The article lists the fruits of this Babel: “AI-governance tools for parishes, a lunch sign-up sheet for a Roman seminary, and a digitized version of the Roman martyrology.” A lunch sign-up sheet for a seminary — this is the “reimagined parish life.” The Roman Martyrology, the roll of the Church’s martyrs who witnessed with blood, is digitized for “accessible Church teaching.” The martyrs did not die for databases; they died for the veritas that these men have abandoned. “AI-governance tools for parishes” — the governance of the parish belongs to the pastor under the bishop, guided by canon law and the salvation of souls, not by algorithms. The Syllabus condemns: “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Error 21); here, the only true religion is technology, and its dogmas are efficiency and innovation.
The Expansion to the United States: The Universal Reign of the Anti-Christ
The “Virtual-to-Sacramental (V2S) hackathon will be held in 4 U.S. dioceses in early 2027.” Note the blasphemous name: “Virtual-to-Sacramental” — as if the virtual (the digital, the human-made) could lead to the sacramental (the divine, the instituted by Christ). The Sacraments are not the endpoint of a digital journey; they are the ex opere operato channels of grace, requiring valid matter, form, and intention — none of which can be coded. The “dioceses” are those of the conciliar sect, occupied territories where the True Mass is banned and the Novus Ordo service passes for worship. The hackathon will bring its “collaborative relationships for the Gospel” to these ruins, completing the demolition.
Total Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the article — nor, we may be certain, in the hackathon itself — is there mention of: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Real Presence, the state of grace, mortal sin, confession, the Last Things, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the angels, the devil, hell, heaven, the Social Kingship of Christ, the conversion of infidels, the condemnation of error, the rights of God. The “Gospel” invoked by “Sr. Usselmann” is a gospel without the Cross. The “parish life” to be “reimagined” is a life without the supernatural. This is the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism” that Pius XI condemns in Quas Primas: “It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied.” The hackathon is the liturgy of this denial.
The EWTN News Complicity: Propaganda for the Abomination
The article is published by EWTN News, the media arm of the conciliar establishment, written by “Ishmael Adibuah, interning as a staff writer in the EWTN News Vatican Bureau, with a background in scientific research, teaching, and congressional service.” The portal presents this Masonic spectacle as news, uncritically repeating the jargon of the revolution: “hackathon,” “AI-governance,” “digital evangelization,” “builder’s vocation.” It is the Pravda of the neo-church. The related articles promoted — “U.S. bishops launch task force to promote human dignity amid rise of artificial intelligence,” “Magnifica Humanitas: Pope invokes justice to…” — form a closed ecosystem of error, reinforcing the false magisterium of the antipope.
Conclusion: The Hackathon as Sign of the Times
This “hackathon” is not an anomaly; it is the essence of the conciliar sect. Having abandoned the regnum Christi for the regnum hominis, having replaced the Sacerdos with the “builder,” the Sacramentum with the “virtual,” the sect now formalizes its apostasy in code. The true Church, the Ecclesia militans, endures in the catacombs of Tradition, where the Mass of all time is offered, where the Rosary is prayed, where the Kingship of Christ is proclaimed, where no algorithm governs the parish but the Canon Law of 1917 and the immutable doctrine of the Fathers. Non praevalebunt — the gates of hell shall not prevail, not even when they come bearing laptops and speaking of “Magnifica Humanitas.” Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
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From the virtual to the sacramental: Hackathon in Rome reimagines parish life in age of AI (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 11.11.2026