The Catholic News Agency portal reports on Lucas Wall, a finance professor at The Catholic University of America, launching Almma AI – an artificial intelligence marketplace claiming alignment with Catholic social teaching. The January 17, 2026 article presents this venture as responding to “the call of Pope Francis” in the 2025 doctrinal note Antiqua et Nova and inspired by Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum. The platform allegedly blocks immoral content while enabling users to monetize AI products like language models and digital assistants. Wall cites the current Vatican occupant’s statements on AI ethics, expressing hope for a new social encyclical from “Pope Leo XIV” about technological revolutions. This technological utopianism dressed in ecclesiastical language constitutes yet another surrender to anti-Christian modernity.
Naturalism Disguised as Social Justice
The Almma AI project fundamentally distorts Catholic social doctrine by reducing Rerum Novarum‘s vision to economic utilitarianism. Leo XIII’s encyclical anchored workers’ rights in the eternal law that demands respect for the divine imprint on every soul (Acta Sanctae Sedis XXIV, 238), not mere wealth redistribution. Wall’s declaration that “AI profits for all” constitutes obedience to Church teaching ignores how AI’s very essence contradicts the natural order. The First Vatican Council condemned those who “place the supreme criterion of truth in the human race” (Dei Filius, Ch.4), yet this marketplace implicitly accepts artificial intelligence – a purely human creation – as morally neutral rather than assessing its ontological dangers.
Post-Conciliar Apostasy in Technological Guise
By invoking the 2025 doctrinal note Antiqua et Nova, Wall demonstrates allegiance to the conciliar sect’s modernist errors. The document’s call for “a renewed appreciation of all that is human” echoes the humanitarian atheism Pius XI condemned in Divini Redemptoris (18). When the article states the marketplace “builds bridges across cultures,” it promotes the religious indifferentism anathematized by Pius IX: “The idea that every man is free to embrace and profess whatever religion he shall consider true… is madness” (Quanta cura, 3). Nowhere does Wall acknowledge Christ’s Kingship over nations or the Church’s exclusive salvific mission – the very heart of authentic Catholic social teaching.
False Shepherds Endorse Technological Babel
The article’s reverence for the Vatican antipope’s statements on AI exposes its theological bankruptcy. Leo XIV’s alleged concern for “human dignity, justice, and labor” rings hollow coming from one who presides over the systematic destruction of Catholic worship through the New Mass and ecumenical apostasies. St. Pius X warned that modernists “pervert the eternal concept of truth” by adapting doctrine to contemporary philosophies (Pascendi, 39), precisely what occurs when conciliar figures bless AI development. Wall’s prayer for “a document similar to Rerum Novarum” from this antipope constitutes spiritual adultery – seeking moral guidance from those who’ve abandoned the Faith.
Omissions Reveal Modernist Captivity
Critical absences in the article prove its authors operate within the conciliar sect’s false paradigm. There’s:
1. No mention of AI’s role in enabling global surveillance – the “mark of the beast” infrastructure
2. No warning that technological solutions can’t cure spiritual maladies caused by original sin
3. No reference to Mary as Mediatrix or the necessity of grace to order temporal affairs
4. No distinction between licit commerce and usurious techno-capitalism condemned by Leo XIII
The marketplace’s prohibition against “immoral products” means nothing when its foundational premise – AI as morally acceptable – remains unexamined. As the Holy Office decreed: “Systems that merely withhold from reason those things which are above it… are to be condemned” (Lamentabili, 11). By ignoring AI’s potential to displace human reason and creativity – God’s image in man – this venture mocks divine law.
Conclusion: Silicon Idolatry Replaces Supernatural Faith
Almma AI represents the conciliar church’s final metamorphosis – abandoning its divine mission to baptize nations, instead blessing silicon revolutions. When Pius XI instituted Christ the King’s feast, he declared civil societies must recognize “the rule of our Savior” lest they “crumble to ruin” (Quas primas, 18). This AI marketplace – like all conciliar innovations – builds on sand, exchanging the Rock of Peter for algorithmic hallucinations. Let faithful Catholics recall Pius IX’s Syllabus condemnation: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” is an error (Syllabus of Errors, 55). No technological marketplace can substitute for the Social Reign of Christ the King.
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CUA professor launches AI marketplace in line with Catholic social teaching (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 17.01.2026