VaticanNews portal reports (May 22, 2026) that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” addressed participants of an international conference on artificial intelligence at the Vatican, urging the restoration of “trust in technology” and the integration of AI into a “holistic Christian lifestyle.” The event, co-promoted by the Dicasteries for Communication and Culture and Education, aimed to explore the conciliar sect’s message for World Communications Day. Prevost claimed that unbridled technology threatens human dignity, yet simultaneously affirmed the Church’s role in shaping digital technologies and fostering AI literacy among youth, stating that the challenge is “anthropological” rather than technological. He concluded with the hope that these efforts would lead to a “restored trust in technology as a fruit of the genius of the human person in harmony with God’s creative design.” This address is a quintessential example of the post-conciliar obsession with temporal progress and its systematic evasion of the Church’s true supernatural mission.
The Supernatural Mission Reduced to Digital Ethics
The address by the usurper Prevost, as reported by VaticanNews, immediately reveals the fundamental inversion that defines the conciliar sect: the Church’s divine mandate to sanctify souls and lead them to eternal salvation is subordinated to the management of technological tools. The article states that Prevost said the Church’s involvement aims to “ensure that these tools be placed at the authentic service of humanity.” This framing, while seemingly benign, is a profound theological error. The Church was not founded by Christ to serve “humanity” in the abstract, temporal sense, but to bring salvation to souls through the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the guidance of all nations under the Kingship of Christ. As Pope Pius XI unequivocally stated in Quas Primas, the Church’s mission is to lead all to “eternal happiness,” and Christ’s reign encompasses “not only Catholic nations… but also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” Prevost’s focus on “AI literacy” and “moderation and discipline in their use” of technology reduces the Church’s prophetic voice to that of a mere ethical consultant for the digital age, a far cry from the Church that once condemned the errors of the world with anathemas and demanded the submission of states to the Social Reign of Christ the King.
The Anthropological Diversion and the Denial of Original Sin
A particularly insidious element in Prevost’s address, as presented in the article, is his assertion that the challenge facing humanity is “not technological but anthropological, as it cuts to the heart of what it means to be human.” He further claims that “by contemplating Christ, the Incarnate Word, we come to know ourselves better, since we cannot understand our own heart apart from the heart of Christ.” This seemingly pious statement is, in reality, a hallmark of modernist thought, which, as St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu, seeks to “reform the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption” based on “modern progress” and a “dogmaless Christianity.” The true “anthropological challenge” is not merely understanding what it means to be human, but understanding the fallen nature of humanity due to Original Sin, the absolute necessity of supernatural grace for salvation, and the reality of eternal damnation. The conciliar sect consistently avoids these fundamental truths, preferring a naturalistic “humanism” that implicitly denies the need for redemption through the Cross. The article’s silence on the state of grace, the reality of sin, or the necessity of conversion to the Catholic faith as the only means of salvation, confirms this profound omission. The “holistic Christian lifestyle” Prevost envisions is one devoid of the supernatural, reduced to a moralistic framework for navigating the digital world.
The Cult of Man and the Heresy of “Restored Trust”
Prevost’s concluding hope for a “restored trust in technology as a fruit of the genius of the human person in harmony with God’s creative design” is perhaps the most revealing statement of the article. This phrase encapsulates the modernist heresy of the “cult of man,” condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 77), which asserts that “in the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.” The idea that human “genius” can produce technology that is “in harmony with God’s creative design” without the explicit ordering of that technology to the supernatural end of man and the glory of God, is a dangerous illusion. It implicitly elevates human achievement to a quasi-divine status, suggesting that technological progress is inherently good and can be harmonized with God’s will through mere ethical considerations, rather than through the rigorous application of Catholic moral theology and the subordination of all things to the supernatural order. This is the very “progress, liberalism and modern civilization” that the Syllabus (Proposition 80) warned against, stating that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” is a condemned proposition. The conciliar sect, far from condemning the excesses of modernity, actively seeks to baptize them.
The Systemic Apostasy of the Conciliar Sect
The entire event, as described in the article, is a symptom of the systemic apostasy that has gripped the structures occupying the Vatican since the death of Pope Pius XII. The focus on “AI literacy,” “media and AI literacy in young people,” and “holistic Christian lifestyle” is a direct consequence of the conciliar revolution’s embrace of the world and its values. The Second Vatican Council’s Inter Mirifica, referenced by Prevost, is itself a document that marked a significant departure from the Church’s traditional stance, opening the door to a dialogue with the world that often amounts to capitulation. The article’s emphasis on “educating people about AI” and “leading them to Christ” through technology, rather than through the unadulterated preaching of the Gospel and the sacraments, reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of, or perhaps a deliberate departure from, the Church’s true mission. The “Church” that Prevost leads is not the Church founded by Christ, but a “paramasonic structure” that has replaced the supernatural with the natural, the sacred with the profane, and the unchanging truths of the faith with the ever-shifting winds of modern thought. The “trust in technology” he seeks to restore is a trust in human endeavor divorced from the absolute sovereignty of God, a trust that ultimately leads away from Christ, not towards Him.
Source:
Pope: Church must restore ‘trust in technology,’ guide people to Christ (vaticannews.va)
Date: 22.05.2026