Vatican’s AI Ethics: Naturalism Masquerading as Human Dignity
Vatican News portal (November 10, 2025) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s message to the Pontifical Academy for Life conference titled “AI and Medicine: The Challenge of Human Dignity.” The article quotes the usurper of the Apostolic Palace urging healthcare professionals to ensure artificial intelligence “enhances interpersonal relationships” rather than replacing them, while vaguely invoking “human dignity” and warning against “vast economic interests.” This performance exemplifies the conciliar sect’s substitution of Catholic ontology with secular humanist platitudes.
Eclipse of Supernatural Finality in Medical Ethics
The message reduces healthcare to a naturalistic enterprise (naturae cursus), omitting any reference to the primary purpose of medical practice: the salus animarum (salvation of souls). Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubii explicitly condemned such reductionism, declaring: “Those who hold the reins of government should not forget that it is the duty of public authority by appropriate laws and sanctions to defend the lives of the innocent, and this all the more so since those whose lives are endangered and assailed cannot defend themselves” (December 31, 1930). The complete absence of cura animae (care of the soul) in the conference theme exposes the neo-church’s abandonment of medicine’s ultimate end – preparing patients for a holy death and eternal life.
When the antipope claims that “the fragility of the human condition is often manifest within medicine,” he deliberately obscures the Church’s perennial teaching on dignitas ex Deo (dignity from God). The First Vatican Council dogmatized that man’s dignity flows not from autonomous existence but from being “created to God’s image and likeness” (Dei Filius, 1870). By quoting his own modernist conception of “ontological dignity” rather than Scripture or Tradition, the antipope continues Bergoglio’s pattern of replacing imago Dei with secular personhood constructs.
Technological Utopianism Versus Sacramental Reality
The article’s claim that AI could be “transformative and beneficial if placed at the true service of the human person” ignores Catholicism’s warning against technological messianism. Pius XII’s 1950 Humani Generis condemned those who “exalt the progress of natural science to such an extent as to make it the only rule of truth.” Nowhere does the message mention the sacraments – particularly Anointing of the Sick – as the true means of healing. This omission constitutes implicit denial of ex opere operato grace, condemned as heresy in Session VII of Trent.
The antipope’s concern about AI replacing “interpersonal relationships” rings hollow when his sect systematically destroys the priest-parishioner relationship through invalid sacraments. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 732 §1) mandated that physicians call a priest when patients were in danger of death – a duty conspicuously absent from the conference agenda. This reflects the sect’s broader apostasy: while feigning concern for “human relationships,” it severs man’s relationship with God through invalid Masses and sacraments.
Collaboration With Worldly Powers: Masonic Subtext
The call for “broad collaboration between healthcare professionals and politics” confirms the conciliar sect’s adherence to Masonic principles condemned in Pius IX’s Quanta Cura: “For the rest, the Roman Pontiffs have constantly taken action that the salutary power of the divine religion should not be harmed by the wicked devices of wicked men who have trampled underfoot the rights of both the sacred and civil power” (December 8, 1864). Leo XIII’s Humanum Genus (1884) explicitly linked such interfaith collaborations to Freemasonry’s plan for “a one-world Church of man.”
When the message warns of “vast economic interests,” it hypocritically ignores the Vatican’s own financial scandals, including the London property debacle and the IOR’s history of money laundering. True Catholic social teaching, as expressed in Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno, requires subsidiarity – not globalist partnerships that erode national sovereignty (May 15, 1931). The antipope’s proposed “collaboration beyond national borders” directly contradicts Pius XII’s condemnation of world government in his 1951 Christmas message.
Omission of Final Ends: Silent Apostasy
Most damning is the total absence of novissima – death, judgment, heaven, and hell – in discussing medical ethics. The Council of Vienne (1311-1312) defined the immortal soul as the forma corporis (form of the body), making any medical ethics divorced from eternal consequences inherently heretical. Modernist “dignity” talk replaces the Summa Theologiae‘s framework of ultimus finis (final end) with temporal comfort as the supreme good.
St. Alphonsus Liguori’s Theologia Moralis devoted entire volumes to physicians’ duties regarding patients’ spiritual state, including advising confession and avoiding sinful procedures. Contrast this with the conference’s single-minded focus on AI’s technical administration of bodily functions. This reductionism fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis that Modernists would reduce religion to “a kind of yearning for the indeterminate” (September 8, 1907).
Conclusion: Technological Pelagianism
The Vatican News article exemplifies the conciliar sect’s technological Pelagianism – the heretical belief that man’s tools can achieve what only grace accomplishes. While authentic Catholic medicine always directed patients toward sanatio et salus (healing and salvation), this AI ethics conference concerns itself solely with optimizing mechanistic healthcare delivery. As the usurper speaks of “guardians of human life,” his sect systematically destroys eternal life through invalid sacraments and false ecumenism.
The true Church’s position remains that articulated by Pius XII in his 1957 address to doctors: “The Christian doctor will see his patient as Christ sees him – a soul to save, a life to offer to God.” Any medical ethics failing to begin from this principle is not merely incomplete, but apostate.
Source:
Pope: AI use in healthcare must ensure quality of care and relationships (vaticannews.va)
Date: 10.11.2025