Vatican News portal reports on a conference organized by the Dicastery for Communication at the Pontifical Urbaniana University on May 21, 2026, titled “Preserving Human Voices and Faces,” inspired by Leo XIV’s message for the 60th World Day of Social Communication. The panelists — including Joy Buolamwini, Benjamin Rosman, Fr. Faustine Furaha, and others — discussed artificial intelligence’s threats to human dignity, deepfakes, algorithmic bias, digital exclusion, and the need for African participation in AI development. While the conversation touches on genuine concerns, it operates entirely within the framework of the conciliar sect’s naturalistic humanism, reducing the supernatural mission of the Church to a bureaucratic technocratic discussion devoid of any reference to sin, grace, the sacraments, or the Kingship of Christ — thereby revealing yet another facet of the post-conciliar apostasy.
The Complete Absence of Supernatural Reality
The entire article, purportedly about communication and technology in the life of the Church, contains not a single mention of the sacraments, the state of grace, the reality of sin, the necessity of evangelization for eternal salvation, or the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This silence is not accidental — it is the defining characteristic of the conciliar sect. When the structures occupying the Vatican discuss “human dignity,” they mean something entirely different from what the Catholic Church has always taught. Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas, proclaimed with unmistakable clarity: “Christ possesses dominion over all creatures, not by force but by essence and nature,” and His reign encompasses all men — “not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.”
What does the conference at the Urbaniana University discuss instead? Algorithmic bias. Digital exclusion. Deepfakes. The “X-coded” individual. Every concern is horizontal, temporal, and naturalistic. The conference treats the human person as a data point, a consumer, a potential victim of technological exploitation — never as a soul created in the image of God, redeemed by the Precious Blood of Christ, destined for either eternal beatitude or eternal damnation. This is precisely the error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 3: “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.”
The conciliar sect has replaced the supernatural order with the technological order. Where the true Church would speak of the necessity of baptism, the danger of mortal sin, and the urgency of conversion, the neo-church speaks of “biometric rights” and “creative rights.” This is not Christianity — it is humanitarianism dressed in ecclesiastical vestments.
The “Sacred Gift” Rhetoric Without Sacred Content
Fr. Faustine Furaha is quoted as saying that “human faces and voices are sacred gifts that must be protected.” This phrase, while sounding pious, is emptied of all Catholic content in its context. In authentic Catholic theology, the human face and voice are sacred because man is created ad imaginem Dei (in the image of God), because man’s ultimate end is the Beatific Vision, and because every human soul is worth more than the entire material universe. The “sacredness” Fr. Furaha invokes is not rooted in creation, redemption, or sanctifying grace — it is rooted in the secular humanist concept of “human dignity” that the conciliar sect adopted at Vatican II.
Pius IX condemned this very error in the Syllabus, Proposition 56: “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction, and it is not at all necessary that human laws should be made conformable to the laws of nature and receive their power of binding from God.” When the conciliar structures speak of “protecting human dignity” without reference to God’s law, they are doing exactly what Pius IX condemned — constructing an ethical framework independent of divine authority.
Moreover, the article notes that “the Church views AI as a tool rather than a replacement for human intelligence or spiritual ministry.” This statement is breathtaking in its theological bankruptcy. The Church is not a “tool”-dispensing institution. The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, the Ark of Salvation, outside of which there is no salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). The true Church has never convened conferences to discuss how to “ethically” use technology — she has preached repentance, administered the sacraments, and called all nations to submit to the Kingship of Christ. The reduction of the Church’s mission to a discussion about AI ethics is itself a manifestation of the modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, where he described the modernist as one who “substitutes the vital evolution of dogmas for their immutable truth.”
The Cult of “African Voices” and Religious Indifferentism
A significant portion of the article is devoted to the question of African participation in AI development, the danger of “data colonialism,” and the need for “African-centered AI governance.” Joy Buolamwini warns against a “second wave of data colonialism” where “African digital data is extracted and used to enrich foreign corporations.” Benjamin Rosman emphasizes that “Africa faces unique challenges” and that “AI is not simply about access to technology but about who designs it and whose values are embedded within it.”
Let us be clear about what is happening here. The conciliar sect, having abandoned the missionary imperative to convert all nations to the Catholic Faith, now substitutes the language of technological empowerment for the language of evangelization. Instead of calling Africa to baptism, the sacraments, and submission to Christ the King, the neo-church calls Africa to “participate in global AI development” and “protect digital resources.” This is the missionary exhibition of the Antichrist — not the preaching of the Gospel, but the distribution of technological access.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, explicitly stated that the Church’s mission is to spread “the sweet and saving reign of Our King” to “all lands and even to the most distant islands of the ocean.” The purpose of missionary activity is not to ensure that Africans have representation in AI governance — it is to ensure that Africans are baptized, receive the sacraments, and are saved from eternal damnation. The conciliar sect has replaced the supernatural end of missionary work with a naturalistic, materialistic end. This is precisely the error condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu, Proposition 48: “Catholics may approve of the system of educating youth unconnected with Catholic faith and the power of the Church, and which regards the knowledge of merely natural things, and only, or at least primarily, the ends of earthly social life.”
Anastasia Makunu invokes the African philosophy of Ubuntu — “I am because we are” — as a framework for approaching AI. The Church does not need African philosophy. She has her own philosophy — the perennial philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, rooted in the natural law and elevated by revelation. The invocation of Ubuntu as a guiding principle for the Church’s approach to technology is yet another manifestation of the syncretism that has infected the conciliar sect since Vatican II. Pius IX condemned this in the Syllabus, Proposition 18: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church.” If Protestantism cannot be equated with Catholicism, then neither can Ubuntu philosophy be treated as a complementary framework for Catholic thought.
Leo XIV’s Message: The Antipope as “Moral Authority”
The article is explicitly framed as being “inspired by Pope Leo XIV’s message on the 60th World Day of Social Communication.” Let us state plainly: Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is an antipope — a usurper of the Chair of St. Peter, a successor in the line of apostates beginning with John XXIII who imposed the modernist revolution upon the structures of the Church. His messages, his “World Days,” and his “inspiration” carry no authority whatsoever in the true Church. The faithful are not bound to heed his words, and his framing of communication issues through the lens of secular ethics rather than Catholic doctrine is further evidence of his illegitimacy.
St. Robert Bellarmine, in De Romano Pontifice, states: “The fifth true opinion is 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 antipopes from John XXIII onward has taught heresy — religious liberty, ecumenism, the evolution of dogmas, the democratization of the Church. Leo XIV’s message on AI ethics, devoid of any supernatural content, is consistent with this line of apostasy. It is not a Catholic document — it is a humanitarian manifesto issued by a man who occupies the Vatican but does not possess the authority of Peter.
The Technological Abomination
The conference concludes with the consensus that “AI must remain at the service of humanity” and that “preserving authentic human voices, faces, cultures, and relationships remains essential for the future of society.” This is the language of the world — the language of the United Nations, of Silicon Valley, of the World Economic Forum. It is not the language of the Catholic Church.
The true Church teaches that the future of society depends not on preserving “authentic human voices” but on the submission of every nation, every individual, and every aspect of human life to the Kingship of Jesus Christ. Pius XI declared: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations, both male and female, who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” The Church’s concern is not with AI governance — it is with the salvation of souls through the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sacraments, and the preaching of the integral Gospel.
The conciliar sect’s obsession with technology, “human dignity,” and “ethical communication” is not a sign of pastoral renewal — it is a sign of total apostasy. It is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15), discussing algorithmic bias while the faithful are starved of the sacraments, the true Mass, and the unadulterated doctrine of Christ. The faithful must reject this neo-church entirely and cling to the immutable Tradition of the Catholic Church — the Church of all ages, which has no need of AI conferences to accomplish her divine mission of saving souls for eternity.
Source:
An African perspective on AI (vaticannews.va)
Date: 26.05.2026