The article reports that the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) sent a congratulatory letter to the Italian newspaper *Corriere della Sera* for its 150th anniversary, urging it to “respect the role of journalists and the dignity of readers” and to “cultivate the human dimension of the story” in the age of artificial intelligence. The message, dripping with naturalistic humanism, completely omits the supernatural mandate of the Catholic press and the absolute primacy of Christ the King over all media and society. This is not pastoral advice; it is a manifesto of the conciliar sect’s apostasy, reducing the Church’s mission to mere cultural commentary within the secular order.
The “Human Dimension” as Denial of the Supernatural
The antipope’s core instruction is to “cultivate the human dimension of the story, which only experience can provide.” This phrase is a loaded symptom of Modernism, explicitly condemned by St. Pius X in the encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis and the decree Lamentabili sane exitu. The “human dimension” elevated here is precisely the “false striving for novelty” that abandons the supernatural. The decree condemns the proposition that “the interpretation of Holy Scripture given by the Church… is subject to more exact judgments and corrections by exegetes” (Proposition 2) and that “the Gospels… are merely mystical contemplations… devoid of historical truth” (Proposition 16). By urging a focus on the human and experiential, the antipope implicitly rejects the divinely revealed, supernatural content of the Faith, which is the only true “story” worth telling. This is the synthesis of all errors: the substitution of a natural, immanent “story” for the supernatural narrative of Redemption.
Silence on Christ the King and the Church’s Rights
The antipope’s letter is a masterclass in omission. He congratulates a secular newspaper for bearing witness to “the role of the printed press as a vehicle for disseminating… ideas and culture as a living leaven of the society.” This is a direct contradiction of Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas, which established the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism that removes Jesus Christ and His law from public life. Pius XI declared that the hope of lasting peace will not shine “as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” He further stated that the Church, “established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself… full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The antipope’s praise for a secular paper’s role in building society, without a single mention of Christ’s reign or the Church’s rights, is a public endorsement of the secularist errors listed in the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX. Error #77 states: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” The antipope’s message is the practical application of this error, urging a Catholic paper (implicitly) to serve a secular, pluralistic society without proclaiming the exclusive rights of Christ the King.
The AI Challenge: Technocratic Naturalism Over Evangelical Mandate
The antipope frames the challenge of artificial intelligence as one of “never renouncing one’s authority, guaranteeing transparency… respecting the dignity of readers.” This is a purely juridical and naturalistic framework, utterly devoid of the supernatural perspective required of Catholic communication. The true challenge, from an integral Catholic viewpoint, is the propagation of error and the loss of souls. The antipope’s advice mirrors the Modernist principle condemned in Lamentabili: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Proposition 58). The “authority” of a Catholic publication must derive from its fidelity to immutable dogma and its role in defending the Faith against the “pest of indifferentism” (Pius IX, Syllabus, Error #15). By discussing AI without referencing the duty to use all media for the glory of God and the salvation of souls, the antipope reduces the Church’s mission to a branch of the communications industry, serving the “human dimension” of a godless world.
The Deep Bond with Italy: A Bond with Apostasy
The antipope notes the newspaper’s “deep bond… with Italy” and its role in helping “build” society. This is a profound scandal. The Italian state is a product of the Risorgimento, which violently suppressed the Papal States and is condemned by the Church’s social teaching. More importantly, Italy is a nation that has legally embraced the errors of the Syllabus: religious liberty, secular education, and the separation of Church and state. To praise a paper for its bond with such a state, without calling for its conversion to the Social Reign of Christ, is to bless the very apostasy Pius XI lamented in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The “bond” celebrated is a bond with a society that has officially rejected Christ’s kingship.
The “Living Leaven” of Apostasy
The antipope describes the newspaper’s work as “a living leaven of the society that your newspaper has helped to build.” This is an inversion of Catholic social doctrine. True Catholic leaven works to transform society according to the principles of the Social Reign of Christ. The Syllabus condemns the idea that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error #55). A newspaper that has operated within a secular, liberal Italian state for 150 years has, by necessity, been leaven for a society built on the very errors Pius IX catalogued: rationalism, indifferentism, and the denial of the Church’s rights. The antipope congratulates it for this, thereby endorsing a century and a half of Catholic compromise with Modernism.
Conclusion: A Call to Reject the Conciliar Sect
This message from the antipope Leo XIV is not an isolated incident of poor judgment; it is a perfect crystallization of the post-conciliar “Church of the New Advent.” It replaces the supernatural mission of the Church—to teach, sanctify, and rule all nations in the name of Christ—with a naturalistic, cultural, and journalistic endeavor. It is the exact opposite of the program of Pius XI, who instituted the feast of Christ the King to “bring society back to our most beloved Savior” and to fight the “plague of secularism.” The silence on the Final Judgment, on the Sacrifice of the Mass, on the necessity of Baptism, on the damnation of heretics, and on the duty of states to recognize the Catholic religion as the sole religion of the State, is deafening. This is the sound of apostasy. The only appropriate response for a Catholic is to reject this conciliar sect and its antipopes, and to cling to the immutable Faith of the Church, which has always taught that all human authority, including that of the press, must be subordinated to the divine law and the reign of Christ the King. The “deep bond” must be with the true Church, not with a secular newspaper that has served a secular state. The “human dimension” is dust without the supernatural; the “leaven” is poison if it does not transform society into the City of God.
Source:
Pope to Italian Newspaper: In Age of AI, Respect Role of Journalists and Dignity of Readers (ncregister.com)
Date: 06.03.2026