The VaticanNews portal (November 12, 2025) reports that “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin issued warnings about artificial intelligence threatening human dignity at a conference organized by Telefono Azzurro and the Child Foundation. The conciliar official employed apocalyptic language about humanity facing extinction through AI, while paradoxically advocating for “interdisciplinary and multicultural efforts” as the solution. The article quotes Bergoglio’s 2017 statement about directing technology toward “healthier, more human progress,” revealing the modernist sect’s perennial substitution of naturalistic humanism for divine revelation.
Naturalism Masquerading as Ethical Concern
The warning about humanity’s potential extinction through AI constitutes a blatant inversion of Catholic eschatology. Whereas Scripture reveals that God alone holds power over creation’s destiny (Apocalypse 6:8), Parolin’s statement implies that man’s technological creations now threaten divine prerogatives. This rhetoric follows the conciliar sect’s established pattern of replacing supernatural realities with ecological and technological catastrophism. Pius XI condemned such naturalism in Quas Primas, reminding that true human dignity flows from Christ’s reign: “Nor is there any difference in this matter between the individual or the family or the State; for all men, whether collectively or individually, are under the dominion of Christ” (Quas Primas 18).
Parolin’s call for “interdisciplinary and multicultural efforts” exposes the conciliar sect’s systematic rejection of the Church’s divine mandate. The First Vatican Council dogmatically declared that “God cannot deny Himself, and truth can never contradict truth” (Dei Filius 4), establishing the Church as sole arbiter of moral questions. By contrast, the “cardinal” proposes syncretistic collaboration with secular disciplines – precisely condemned by St. Pius X: “They add that the dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths fallen from heaven… but an interpretation of religious facts which the human mind has acquired by laborious effort” (Lamentabili 22).
Omission of Christ’s Kingship as Root Cause
The entire discourse ignores the regal office of Christ as the only solution to technological hubris. Pius XI’s encyclical established that “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Quas Primas 19). Parolin’s silence on this doctrine proves the conciliar sect operates as a counterfeit religion promoting human autonomy rather than divine sovereignty. The article’s reference to Bergoglio’s 2017 speech compounds this error by reducing moral discernment to pragmatic “concrete action” rather than obedience to eternal law.
Theological Vacuum in “Human Dignity” Rhetoric
Parolin’s repeated invocations of “human dignity” constitute empty verbalism divorced from Catholic anthropology. The term remains undefined throughout, reflecting the conciliar sect’s deliberate ambiguity. Contrast this with Pope Leo XIII’s precise teaching: “True dignity and excellence in men resides in moral living, that is, in virtue” (Quod Apostolici Muneris 7). The article’s focus on children’s protection while ignoring their need for baptism and sanctifying grace reveals a purely naturalistic vision condemned by Pius IX: “Outside the Church there is no salvation… Those who refuse to enter the Church or to remain in it cannot be saved” (Singulari Quidem 7).
Modernist Roots of Technological Utopianism
The conference’s premise – that AI constitutes an existential threat requiring new ethical frameworks – stems from the modernist heresy condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “They affirm that religious consciousness… evolves in the soul by a vital process of continuous development” (Pascendi 12). This evolutionary view directly contradicts the Perennial Magisterium’s teaching on fixed moral norms. The Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemned the notion that “human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Syllabus 3), which Parolin implicitly endorses by seeking solutions in human collaboration rather than divine law.
The article’s uncritical presentation of Bergoglio’s 2017 statement – “We can put technology at the service of another type of progress” – constitutes endorsement of modernist immanentism. St. Pius X warned that modernists “make conscience and science supreme arbiters… not only of all knowledge but of reality itself” (Pascendi 39). True Catholic progress consists in “the conformity of man to the last end which is God” (Leo XIII, Libertas 23), not technological mastery divorced from sanctification.
Eschatological Subversion Through Crisis Narratives
Parolin’s apocalyptic language about human extinction serves the conciliar sect’s systematic replacement of Catholic eschatology with secular crisis narratives. Whereas Christ promised the Church’s indefectibility (Matthew 16:18), the “cardinal” substitutes technological doom for the Four Last Things. This inversion follows the modernist playbook exposed in Pascendi: “The Modernists… destroy all belief in the supernatural” (Pascendi 40). The true Church has always taught that “the world is hastening to its destruction” through sin (Catechism of Trent), not through human inventions requiring globalist solutions.
Conclusion: Idolatry of Human Solutions
The conference’s participants – described as “authoritative figures of the academic, scientific and technological world” – embody the conciliar sect’s idolatrous worship of human expertise. This directly violates the First Commandment and Pius IX’s condemnation: “Science and philosophy are not to be accounted of as human things, but as divine, and that they are governed by the authority of the Church” (Syllabus 13). The true solution to technological dangers lies not in interdisciplinary committees, but in restoring Christ’s social reign through the conversion of nations – the very consecration the conciliar sect refuses to perform.
Source:
Cardinal Parolin: Protect the dignity of children in the age of AI (vaticannews.va)
Date: 12.11.2025