EWTN News portal reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, calling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” has signed his first encyclical titled *Magnifica Humanitas* (“Magnificent Humanity”), scheduled for publication on May 25, 2026. The full title is *Magnifica Humanitas: “On the Protection of Human Dignity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.”* The document was signed on May 15, the 135th anniversary of Leo XIII’s *Rerum Novarum*. The announcement states that the encyclical will provide “moral guidance on the digital revolution and emerging technologies such as AI.” The presentation event will feature Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, Professor Anna Rowlands, Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah, and Professor Léocadie Lushombo, with Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin offering concluding remarks. The article notes that Leo XIV chose his name to follow Leo XIII in addressing “the social question” in the context of artificial intelligence, stating: “In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor.” This encyclical represents the culmination of the conciliar revolution’s trajectory: the total replacement of the supernatural mission of the Church with a naturalistic humanism that worships “Magnificent Humanity” while remaining silent about sin, grace, the divinity of Christ, and the eternal salvation of souls.
The Title Itself Is a Manifesto of Anthropological Heresy
The very title chosen by the usurper — Magnifica Humanitas — is not merely a rhetorical flourish but a theological declaration of apostasy. In the integral Catholic faith, the word magnificat belongs exclusively to the Blessed Virgin Mary, who proclaimed: “Magnificat anima mea Dominum” — “My soul doth magnify the Lord” (Luke 1:46). Mary did not magnify humanity; she magnified God alone. The Magnificat is the supreme hymn of the creature’s total self-abasement before the Creator, the acknowledgment that all glory belongs to God and that human dignity derives solely from God’s gratuitous condescension. To transfer this sacred predicate from God and His Blessed Mother to “Humanitas” — to humanity considered in itself — is an act of theological lèse-majesté that would have been recognized instantly as heretical by every Pope from St. Peter to Pius XII.
St. Pius X, in *Lamentabili sane exitu* (1907), condemned the modernist proposition that “the dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind has worked out with great effort” (Proposition 22). The title *Magnifica Humanitas* embodies precisely this error: it places humanity, not God, at the center of the Church’s proclamation. It is the logical terminus of the modernist trajectory that began with the “cult of man” condemned by Paul VI himself — though he was one of its chief architects — in the conciliar document *Gaudium et Spes*, which declared: “Man is the only creature on earth that God willed for its own sake” (a proposition Pius XII had already identified as erroneous in *Humani Generis*, 1950).
Pius IX, in the *Syllabus of Errors* (1864), 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” (Proposition 3). The entire framework of this encyclical — addressing “human dignity” in the context of artificial intelligence, without any reference to man’s fallen nature, his need for redemption through Jesus Christ, the True God and True Man, the necessity of sanctifying grace, the reality of sin, and the eternal consequences of rejecting the one true Faith — is a practical application of this condemned error. Human dignity, abstracted from man’s relationship to God, is a meaningless phrase — or worse, it is the dignity of a beast, since without the supernatural order, man is nothing more than an intelligent animal.
The Ghost of Rerum Novarum: A Counterfeit Inheritance
The article explicitly states that Leo XIV chose his name to follow Leo XIII, whose *Rerum Novarum* (1891) addressed “the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution.” The usurper declares: “In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence.”
This claim is a fraudulent appropriation of the legacy of Leo XIII. *Rerum Novarum* was a document rooted in the supernatural order. It began with the acknowledgment that “the matter in question is one to which, as no one is ignorant, We have turned Our special attention” — the condition of workers — but it addressed this question within the framework of man’s ultimate end: the vision of God in eternity. Leo XIII wrote: “The foremost duty, therefore, of the rulers of the State should be to make sure that the laws and institutions, the general character and administration of the commonwealth, shall be such as of themselves to realize public well-being and private prosperity.” But this was always subordinated to the supernatural end. The same Pope, in *Immortale Dei* (1885), declared with absolute clarity: “The Almighty, therefore, has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, each the highest in its own kind, and each fixed within limits which are defined and immutable according to its nature and special object.”
Compare this with the programmatic statement of Leo XIV: the Church offers “the treasury of her social teaching” in response to “developments in the field of artificial intelligence.” Where is the mention of the Church’s primary mission: the salvation of souls through the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the propagation of the Faith? Where is the acknowledgment that the greatest threat to humanity is not artificial intelligence but the loss of the Catholic Faith, the mortal sin that damns souls for eternity, and the apostasy that has consumed the conciliar structures from within?
Pius XI, in *Quas Primas* (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” He declared: “It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations, which authority she received from Christ the Lord to lead men to eternal happiness, was denied.” The encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* continues and deepens this denial by reducing the Church’s mission to a commentary on technological development, as if the Church were merely another NGO offering “moral guidance” on the ethical implications of AI.
The Presentation Panel: A Synagogue of Modernism
The speakers chosen for the encyclical’s presentation reveal the true nature of this document. Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, is the architect of *Fiducia Supplicans* and a notorious modernist who has consistently undermined Catholic moral teaching. Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, is a Jesuit — a member of the order that has been the primary vehicle of modernist subversion within the Church since the 19th century, as documented by Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis* (1907). The inclusion of Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic USA — a corporation dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence — as a speaker at the presentation of a papal encyclical is without precedent in the history of the Church and reveals the subordination of the conciliar structures to the interests of the technological oligarchy.
Anna Rowlands and Léocadie Lushombo represent the academic theological establishment that has been thoroughly colonized by modernism. The concluding remarks by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State, confirm that this is an official act of the conciliar apparatus — the same apparatus that has systematically dismantled Catholic doctrine, liturgy, and discipline over the past seven decades.
The composition of this panel is itself a heresy made manifest: the Church’s teaching on faith and morals is presented not by saints, doctors, and theologians grounded in the perennial philosophy, but by modernists, Jesuits, and representatives of the AI industry. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15).
The Omission That Condemns: Silence on the Supernatural Order
The article, and the encyclical it announces, is characterized by what it does not say. There is no mention of:
- The divinity of Jesus Christ and His unique role as the one Mediator between God and man (1 Timothy 2:5)
- The necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation: “Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” — Outside the Church there is no salvation (Fourth Lateran Council, 1215)
- The reality of original sin and the fallen nature of man, which no technological development can remedy
- The necessity of sanctifying grace, obtained through the sacraments, for the attainment of eternal life
- The reality of hell and the eternal consequences of mortal sin
- The social reign of Christ the King over all nations, as proclaimed by Pius XI in *Quas Primas*
- The obligation of all men and all societies to submit to the authority of the Catholic Church in all matters pertaining to faith and morals
- The intrinsic disorder of a world organized apart from God, which is the root cause of all social evils, including those associated with technological development
This silence is not accidental; it is the defining characteristic of modernism. Pius X, in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis*, identified the fundamental error of the modernists as the separation of the religious fact from the scientific fact, the reduction of religion to a purely subjective experience, and the denial of the Church’s authority to make binding pronouncements on matters of faith and morals. The modernist, Pius X wrote, “is always talking about the rights of the individual conscience, about the need for freedom of thought and speech, about the progress of science” — and all of this is a smokescreen for the destruction of the Catholic Faith.
The true “threat to human dignity” is not artificial intelligence but the loss of the Catholic Faith. A humanity that rejects God, that denies the divinity of Christ, that profanes the sacraments, and that organizes its life apart from the supernatural order is a humanity that has already lost its dignity — regardless of how sophisticated its technology may be. The conciliar structures, having led millions into apostasy through their false ecumenism, their naturalistic humanism, and their systematic destruction of Catholic doctrine, now presume to offer “moral guidance” on artificial intelligence. This is the blind leading the blind, and both shall fall into the ditch (Matthew 15:14).
The Cult of Man: From Gaudium et Spes to Magnifica Humanitas
The trajectory from *Gaudium et Spes* (1965) to *Magnifica Humanitas* (2026) is the trajectory of the conciliar revolution from its inception to its logical conclusion. *Gaudium et Spes* declared: “Man can fully discover his true self only in a sincere giving of himself” — a proposition that, stripped of its supernatural context, is pure Rousseauian naturalism. Paul VI, in his notorious address to the United Nations on October 4, 1965, proclaimed: “We might say that We are the chief of the religion of man, the religion of humanity” — a statement that would have been recognized as blasphemy by every Pope in the history of the Church.
Now, sixty years later, the conciliar structures have produced an encyclical whose very title — Magnifica Humanitas — is the explicit worship of man. This is not a development of doctrine; it is the corruption of doctrine that Pius X condemned in *Lamentabili* (Proposition 1): “The pursuit of novelty in the investigation of the foundations of things leads in our times to deplorable consequences, abandoning all restraint. It causes the heritage of humanity to be rejected, and often leads to the most grievous errors.”
The Church’s social teaching, properly understood, is not a set of principles that can be applied to any technological development in abstraction from the supernatural order. It is an application of the eternal law of God to the temporal order, always subordinated to man’s ultimate end: the vision of God in eternity. Leo XIII’s *Rerum Novarum* was authentic precisely because it was rooted in this supernatural framework. The counterfeit “social teaching” of the conciliar structures is a naturalistic humanism that has nothing to do with the Catholic Faith and everything to do with the religion of humanity that the modernists have been constructing since the time of the French Revolution.
The Heresy of the “Treasury of Social Teaching”
The usurper declares that “the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching.” This phrase is revealing. The true treasury of the Church is not “social teaching” but the deposit of Faith — the body of revealed truths entrusted by Christ to the Apostles and preserved by the Magisterium throughout the centuries. The First Vatican Council (1870) defined: “The doctrine of faith which God has revealed is not proposed as a philosophical invention to be perfected by human ingenuity, but is delivered as a divine deposit to the spouse of Christ to be faithfully guarded and infallibly declared.”
By substituting “social teaching” for the deposit of Faith, the conciliar structures reveal their true character: they are not the Church of Christ but a human institution devoted to the promotion of a naturalistic agenda. The “treasury” they offer is not the treasury of divine revelation but the treasury of modernist errors — the “evolution of dogmas,” the “democratization of the Church,” the “dialogue with the world,” and now the “moral guidance” on artificial intelligence.
Pius IX, in the *Syllabus of Errors*, condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). The encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* is precisely this reconciliation — the capitulation of the conciliar structures to the spirit of the age, the worship of technological progress, and the abandonment of the Church’s supernatural mission.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation
The announcement of *Magnifica Humanitas* is not merely another act of the conciliar apostasy; it is a milestone in the consolidation of the religion of man within the structures that once housed the Catholic Church. The title itself — the magnification of humanity — is a blasphemous inversion of the Magnificat, which magnifies not man but God. The content — “moral guidance on artificial intelligence” — is a naturalistic reduction of the Church’s mission to a commentary on technological development. The speakers — modernists, Jesuits, and AI industry representatives — are the high priests of the new religion. And the silence — on sin, grace, the divinity of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic Faith, and the eternal salvation of souls — is the silence of the grave.
The true Pope, the true Vicar of Christ, would never produce such a document. He would proclaim, as Pius XI proclaimed in *Quas Primas*, that “Christ must reign in the mind of man, whose duty it is to accept revealed truths with complete submission to the divine will and to believe firmly and constantly in the teaching of Christ; let Christ reign in the will, which should obey God’s laws and commandments; let Him reign in the heart, which, having despised desires, must love God above all and belong only to Him.” He would remind the faithful that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) — not artificial intelligence, not “human dignity,” not “social teaching,” but Jesus Christ alone, the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).
The faithful who remain loyal to the integral Catholic Faith must reject this encyclical and all the works of the conciliar structures. They must return to the immutable Tradition — to the true Mass, the true sacraments, the true doctrine — and they must pray for the restoration of the true Papacy and the true Church. For as Our Lord warned: “When the Son of Man comes, shall He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). The structures occupying the Vatican have answered this question with their resounding no.
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Vatican to publish Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical May 25 (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 18.05.2026