VaticanNews portal reports that on 15 May 2026, the Dicastery for Communication, in collaboration with the Dicastery for Culture and Education and the John XXIII Foundation, announced an international conference titled “Preserving human voices and faces,” scheduled for 21 May at the Pontifical Urbaniana University. The event, organized to mark the World Day of Social Communications, claims to echo the message of the usurper Leo XIV and aims to gather “academia, institutional representatives, high-tech experts, and journalists” to engage in “dialogue” on Artificial Intelligence and its impact on humanity. The conference is opened by Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, and Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, who invoke the language of “dialogue,” “reflection,” and the orientation of technology toward a vaguely defined “deepest truth of humanity.” This event is yet another symptom of the conciliar sect’s capitulation to the spirit of the world, substituting the supernatural mission of the Catholic Church with naturalistic humanism and technological idolatry.
The “Deepest Truth of Humanity” Without Christ: A Modernist Abstraction
The stated aim of the conference, as presented by VaticanNews, is to respond to Leo XIV’s exhortation to “cherish the gift of communication as the deepest truth of humanity, to which all technological innovation should also be oriented.” This language is revealing in its emptiness. What is this “deepest truth of humanity”? The Catholic faith teaches with absolute clarity that the deepest truth of humanity is its creation in the image and likeness of God, its fall through original sin, and its redemption through the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The ultimate end of every human act, including communication and technology, is the glory of God and the salvation of souls. As Pope Pius XI proclaimed in Quas Primas, “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men,” and “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). To speak of a “deepest truth of humanity” while remaining silent about sin, redemption, the divinity of Christ, and the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation is not merely an omission—it is a direct contradiction of the Faith. This is the language of Modernism, condemned categorically by Saint Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and in the decree Lamentabili Sane Exitu, which rejects the proposition that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (proposition 59). The conciliar sect has replaced the unchanging deposit of faith with a malleable, evolutionary concept of “human truth” that adapts to the prevailing opinions of the age—precisely the error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors when he anathematized the proposition that “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (proposition 58 from Lamentabili).
“Dialogue” as the Substitute for Doctrine
The conference is described as “a moment of reflection and dialogue” inviting “figures from academia, institutional representatives, high-tech experts, and journalists.” This is the standard operating procedure of the post-conciliar apparatus: the substitution of the Church’s divinely commissioned mandate to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19) with interreligious and secular “dialogue.” The true Church, founded by Christ as “the pillar and ground of the truth” (1 Timothy 3:15), does not engage in “dialogue” with the world on equal footing. She teaches, governs, and sanctifies with the authority of her Divine Founder. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas, the Church “demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority, and that in fulfilling the mission entrusted to it by God—to teach, govern, and lead all to eternal happiness, those who belong to the Kingdom of Christ—it cannot depend on anyone’s will.” The very structure of this conference—gathering secular experts, technologists, and journalists as equal participants in determining the Church’s orientation toward technology—implicitly denies the Church’s supernatural authority and reduces her to merely another voice in the marketplace of ideas. This is the democratization of the Church condemned by the Syllabus of Errors, which rejects the notion that “the Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (proposition 6 of Lamentabili).
The John XXIII Foundation: Honoring the Architect of Apostasy
The event is organized in collaboration with the “John XXIII Foundation.” The mention of this name demands unequivocal clarity: John XXIII was the usurper who convened the Second Vatican Council, the event that unleashed the systematic destruction of Catholic doctrine, liturgy, and discipline. He is not a figure to be honored but the very catalyst of the catastrophe that has brought the structures occupying the Vatican to their present state of total apostasy. The 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 188.4, states that “every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation, recognized by the law itself, if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Saint Robert Bellarmine, in De Romano Pontifice, affirms that “a Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The entire line of usurpers from John XXIII onward—each of whom has publicly propagated heresies condemned by the authentic Magisterium—are, by the Church’s own principles, incapable of holding the office they claim. To name a foundation after John XXIII and to collaborate with it is to legitimize the very source of the Church’s destruction. It is as though, after a hostile coup, the usurpers named their primary institution after the traitor who opened the gates.
Artificial Intelligence and the Cult of Man
The theme of “preserving human voices and faces” in the context of Artificial Intelligence reveals the underlying anthropocentrism that drives the conciliar sect. The authentic Catholic position is that man is not the measure of all things—God is. Technology, like every human endeavor, must be ordered toward the supernatural end of man: the beatific vision. Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil; it is law to itself, and suffices, by its natural force, to secure the welfare of men and of nations” (proposition 3). The conference’s framing of AI as something to be oriented toward a humanistic “deepest truth” rather than toward the glory of God and the defense of His Law is a manifestation of this condemned error. Furthermore, the Syllabus explicitly condemns the proposition that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (proposition 80). This conference is precisely such a “coming to terms” with the spirit of the age, dressing technological servitude in the language of pastoral concern.
The Silence That Condemns
What is entirely absent from this announcement is any mention of the supernatural order, the necessity of the sacraments, the reality of sin and grace, the divinity of Christ, the unique salvific role of the Catholic Church, the Last Judgment, or the eternal destiny of souls. There is no mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sacrament of confession, the necessity of baptism, or the reality of hell. The conference treats the human person as a purely natural being whose “voices and faces” must be “preserved” through technological means—as though the greatest threat to humanity were the loss of digital likenesses rather than the loss of souls through sin and apostasy. This silence is not accidental; it is the defining characteristic of the post-conciliar neo-church. As Saint Pius X warned in Pascendi, the Modernists “proceed to act as if God did not exist” in their public discourse, reducing religion to a matter of sentiment and social utility. The conference announcement is a perfect specimen of this naturalistic reductionism.
The Dicasteries of the Abomination
The event is organized by the “Dicastery for Communication” and the “Dicastery for Culture and Education”—structures of the post-conciliar regime that have no basis in the authentic constitution of the Church. These are bureaucratic inventions of the conciliar revolution, designed to advance the agenda of the New Advent rather than to preserve and transmit the deposit of faith. Paolo Ruffini and José Tolentino de Mendonça, presented as “Prefects,” hold no legitimate authority in the true Church. They are functionaries of a paramasonic structure that has occupied the Vatican since 1958. Cardinal Tolentino de Mendonça, in particular, has been a prominent figure in the promotion of the conciar sect’s cultural agenda, consistently advancing the synthesis of Catholicism with secular humanism that is the hallmark of Modernism. Their participation in this event is not surprising—it is entirely consistent with the trajectory of the structures they serve.
Conclusion: The Neo-Church in the Service of the World
This conference is not an anomaly but a faithful expression of what the conciliar sect has become: a naturalistic, humanistic organization that uses the vestments of Catholicism to advance the agenda of the spirit of the age. It gathers technologists and journalists to discuss artificial intelligence without any reference to God, to Christ, to the Church, to the sacraments, or to the supernatural end of man. It honors the memory of the usurper John XXIII. It employs the language of “dialogue” and “reflection” to mask the absence of doctrine. It treats the human person as a creature of pure nature, in contradiction to the teaching of the Council of Trent and every Pope who faithfully guarded the deposit of faith. The true Church, which endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid orders, has no part in this spectacle. As Pope Pius IX declared, the Church has never disobeyed the divine command to render to God what is God’s, and “no power in the world, however great it can be, can deprive of the pastoral office those whom the Holy Ghost has made Bishops in order to feed the Church of God.” The conference at the Urbaniana University on 21 May 2026 is yet another milestone on the road of the conciliar sect’s complete absorption into the world—a world that, as Saint John warns, “lieth in wickedness” (1 John 5:19).
Source:
‘Preserving Human Voices and Faces’: International Conference on AI at Urbaniana University (vaticannews.va)
Date: 15.05.2026