Vatican’s AI Forum Masks Apostasy with Technological Humanism
Catholic News Agency reports on a November 7, 2025, event hosted by the Pontifical Gregorian University, where antipope Leo XIV urged Catholics to lead in “ethical AI development.” The Builders AI Forum gathered 160 organizations to discuss artificial intelligence in education, healthcare, and business through the lens of conciliar sect’s “social teaching.” Antipope Leo declared AI development a “profoundly ecclesial endeavor,” framing technology as a tool for “evangelization” and “integral human development.” MIT researcher Jose Pacheco invoked the emotional testimony of Megan Garcia, whose son committed suicide after chatbot interactions, to emphasize the “urgency” of ethical discussions.
Naturalism Displaces Supernatural Finality
The forum’s entire premise rejects the Church’s divine mission. By reducing the Church’s role to a merely ethical commentator on technology, the conciliar sect denies the regnum sociale Christi (social kingship of Christ) affirmed by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925): “Nations will be happy only when they accept the reign of Christ with willing minds.” Nowhere does the article mention sin, grace, or the salvation of souls—the Church’s true purpose. Instead, antipope Leo substitutes Catholic soteriology with a horizontal “reverence for life” detached from the Cross.
The emotional appeal to Garcia’s tragedy exemplifies this naturalism. While human suffering demands compassion, the absence of references to eternal judgment or redemptive suffering reduces the Church’s response to therapeutic activism. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned such secularization: “The Church ought to adapt herself to modern civilization” (Error 80).
False Ecumenism in Technological Utopianism
Antipope Leo’s call for AI to “reflect justice, solidarity, and reverence for life” echoes the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, not Catholic doctrine. The forum’s participants—MIT researchers, startup CEOs, and healthcare “experts”—embody the religious indifferentism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Revelation could not be other than man’s consciousness of his relation to God” (Error 20).
Josh Thomason’s claim that “people of faith” must shape AI ignores Catholicism’s exclusive claim to truth. St. Pius X warned against such syncretism: “The true Church is one, by the unity of faith, worship, and government” (Vehementer Nos, 1906). By treating Catholicism as one ethical system among many, the forum advances the modernist heresy that dogmas evolve to suit technological progress (Error 64, Lamentabili).
Usurpation of the Church’s Teaching Authority
Antipope Leo’s assertion that AI design “expresses a vision of humanity” smuggles in the conciliar sect’s anthropocentric heresy. Contrast this with Pius XI’s unambiguous teaching: “Christ reigns in the minds of men… because He is Truth” (Quas Primas). The forum’s working groups on education and healthcare—where participants debated “how much children should interact with chatbots”—usurp the Magisterium’s role.
St. Pius X condemned this democratization: “The Church is not a democracy” (Notre Charge Apostolique, 1910). John Johnson’s call for a “human alternative to commodification” ignores the supernatural destiny of man, reducing Catholic action to social engineering. The true Church teaches that technology, like all human endeavors, must serve man’s ultimate end: glorifying God through obedience to His laws.
Satanic Subversion Through Emotional Manipulation
Pacheco’s tearful invocation of Garcia’s story typifies the sentimentalism that replaces doctrinal rigor in the conciliar sect. Pius XII warned against such emotionalism: “The deposit of faith is a rich treasure… not subject to arbitrary interpretations” (Humani Generis, 1950). By framing AI ethics through personal tragedy rather than divine law, the forum promotes situation ethics—a hallmark of modernism.
Antipope Leo’s reference to Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum is particularly blasphemous. Where Leo XIII defended workers’ rights within Christ’s kingship, his usurping namesake reduces Catholic social teaching to a utilitarian tool for technological governance. This inversion fulfills Pius X’s prophecy: “Modernists place the foundation of religion in human needs” (Pascendi, 1907).
Conclusion: Idolatry of Technique Over Truth
The Builders AI Forum epitomizes the conciliar sect’s apostasy. By exalting “dialogue between faith and reason” while omitting the sine qua non of Christ’s sovereignty, antipope Leo enshrines the cult of man denounced in Quas Primas: “The rebellion of individuals and states against Christ has produced chaos.”
True Catholics must reject this technocratic pseudo-church and cling to the semper idem (always the same) Faith. As Pius XI declared: “When men recognize Christ’s authority, sweet peace flourishes”—not through algorithms or chatbots, but through submission to the Eternal King.
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Pope Leo XIV calls on Catholics to lead in ethical AI development (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 07.11.2025