Neo-Modernist Syncretism Masquerading as “Ethical AI” in Vatican Declaration
The VaticanNews portal (November 7, 2025) reports on a message from antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to the “Builders AI Forum 2025,” calling for artificial intelligence to “serve human dignity, justice, and the common good” through technology allegedly reflecting “God the Creator’s design: intelligent, relational, and guided by love.” The text frames AI development as a “profoundly ecclesial endeavour” and “participation in the divine act of creation,” urging collaboration between scientists, entrepreneurs, and “pastoral leaders” to align innovation with the “Church’s mission.” This document epitomizes the conciliar sect’s apostasy by reducing the Church’s divine purpose to naturalistic technocracy.
Theological Subversion of Creation and Grace
The assertion that technological innovation constitutes “participation in the divine act of creation” is a blasphemous perversion of Catholic dogma. Creatio ex nihilo (creation from nothing) is an act exclusive to God (Lateran IV, Canon 1), while human artisanship merely rearranges pre-existing matter. By equating AI development with divine creation, the usurper of Peter’s chair revives the Pelagian heresy, implying human works can mimic God’s uncreated power. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns such pantheistic conflations: “God is identical with the nature of things” (Proposition 1).
Moreover, the message’s silence on actual participation in divinity—sanctifying grace through the sacraments—exposes its naturalism. True “participation in the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4) occurs only through baptism and the Eucharist, not through algorithmic systems. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili explicitly rejects the modernist distortion that “revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20). Yet here, “relationship with God” is reduced to a sentimental byproduct of machine learning.
Erasure of the Supernatural for Earthly Utopianism
Nowhere does the text mention salvation, sin, or the Social Reign of Christ the King—the very pillars of Catholic social teaching. Instead, it promotes a humanitarian cult centered on vague “human dignity” and “the common good,” divorced from man’s supernatural end. Pius XI’s Quas Primas anathematizes this inversion: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority are destroyed” (§31). The “common good” invoked is a Marxist fabrication unless ordered toward man’s eternal destiny, as Leo XIII taught in Rerum Novarum: “The sole purpose of life on earth is to merit eternal happiness.”
The call for AI to serve “evangelization” is equally fraudulent. True evangelization demands the proclamation of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus and the Kingship of Christ, not digital storytelling workshops. By omitting the necessity of conversion and the Church’s exclusive mediatory role, the message aligns with Vatican II’s heretical ecumenism, condemned by St. Pius X: “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics because it adheres to views irreconcilable with modern progress” (condemned in Lamentabili, Proposition 63).
Ecclesiology Reduced to Masonic Collaboration
Labeling AI development a “profoundly ecclesial endeavour” constitutes sacrilege against the Church’s divine constitution. The Church exists to “lead souls to heaven,” not to bless Silicon Valley’s latest idolatry. Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis defines the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ, yet here it is reimagined as a NGO partnering with entrepreneurs—a betrayal echoing the Freemasonic ideal of “human brotherhood.” The Syllabus condemns such secular usurpation: “The Church ought to be separated from the State” (Proposition 55).
The appeal to “dialogue between faith and reason” is another modernist trope. True Catholic philosophy, as articulated in Leo XIII’s Aeterni Patris, subordinates reason to revelation. By contrast, this “dialogue” implies parity between divine truth and algorithmic logic—a syncretism Pius IX anathematized: “Human reason is the sole arbiter of truth” (Proposition 3).
Omissions Revealing Apostasy
The document’s deliberate silence on key doctrines is its most damning feature:
– No mention of the Cross: Christ’s redemptive sacrifice is replaced by techno-optimism.
– No warning against AI’s dehumanizing risks: Transhumanism, data idolatry, and digital surveillance go unaddressed.
– No call for repentance: The Gospel is reduced to a social-justice algorithm.
As St. Pius X warned, modernists reduce faith to “a sum of probabilities” (Lamentabili, Proposition 25). When antipope Leo XIV declares “intelligence finds its fullest meaning in love,” he echoes Feuerbach’s atheist humanism—not the Caritas of Christ crucified.
Conclusion: A Digital Golden Calf
This message exemplifies the conciliar sect’s final apostasy: replacing the Altar with the server rack, the Eucharist with ethical frameworks, and the Kingship of Christ with Silicon Valley’s utopianism. As Pius XI declared, “The peace of Christ is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas). Any “AI ethics” divorced from this Kingdom is but a golden calf for the digital age—a satanic parody of true order. Catholics must reject this blasphemy and cling to the unchanging Faith, lest they too worship the Beast and its image (Apocalypse 14:9-11).
Source:
Pope Leo: AI must reflect the design of God the Creator (vaticannews.va)
Article date: 07.11.2025