The Register portal reports that Catholic thinkers involved in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry have praised the first encyclical of the antipope Leo XIV, ‘Magnifica Humanitas,’ for its approach to AI. The document warns against an “anti-human” trajectory of technology while calling for an approach rooted in “common good” and Catholic social principles such as “subsidiarity” and “solidarity.” Experts from within the AI industry itself, including representatives from Anthropic and Meta’s Oversight Board, lauded the encyclical as “hopeful” and “not anti-technology,” praising its engagement with rather than rejection of AI systems. The document addresses transhumanism, labor exploitation in the AI industry, and the need for ethical alignment of AI with human values, while affirming the primacy of human dignity over machine intelligence. This enthusiastic embrace of the technocratic paradigm by the conciliar structures reveals the fundamental bankruptcy of a church that has abandoned supernatural faith for the idolatry of technological progress, reducing the eternal destiny of souls to questions of algorithmic efficiency and “human flourishing” stripped of its supernatural dimension.
The Abomination of Desolation Speaks: A Usurper’s Authority on Matters of Faith and Morons
The very premise upon which this entire article rests is built upon the most fundamental of Modernist errors: the recognition of a manifest heretic and usurper of Peter’s throne as a legitimate authority capable of issuing binding documents on faith and morals. The antipope Leo XIV, like his predecessors from John XXIII onward, occupies the Vatican not as the Vicar of Christ but as the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice (II, 30): “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 conciliar sect, having defected from the Catholic faith through its embrace of religious liberty, ecumenism, and the evolution of dogmas, has no authority whatsoever to teach, govern, or sanctify. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law confirms that every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of public defection from the Catholic faith. The so-called “encyclical” Magnifica Humanitas is therefore not a document of the Church but a product of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, possessing no more authority than a press release from any secular institution.
Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio explicitly states that if any Roman Pontiff has defected from the Catholic Faith prior to his elevation, his promotion shall be null, void, and of no effect. The entire line of antipopes beginning with John XXIII were either manifest heretics before their election or became so immediately upon accepting the conciliar revolution. Their acts, including this latest encyclical on artificial intelligence, are juridically null and spiritually poisonous. To treat such a document as worthy of serious theological engagement is to participate in the Great Apostasy that Our Lord warned would precede the end of the age.
The Technocratic Paradigm: A Neo-Church Embraces Its Naturalistic Destiny
The article reveals with painful clarity the complete capitulation of the conciliar sect to what Francis, the predecessor of this current antipope, termed the “technocratic paradigm” — a worldview that “seeks to reduce everything to an object to be dominated.” This is not a departure from Modernism but its logical consummation. As Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 58): “No other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter, and all the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means, and the gratification of pleasure.”
The very framework within which the antipope and his advisors approach artificial intelligence reveals a purely naturalistic anthropology devoid of supernatural faith. The document speaks of “human flourishing” measured by “care for others” and “optimization of abilities” — categories drawn entirely from secular utilitarianism and transhumanist philosophy, not from the Catholic theology of grace, merit, and eternal salvation. Where is the mention of the supernatural destiny of man? Where is the recognition that human beings are created ad imaginem Dei for the beatific vision, not for technological enhancement? Where is the acknowledgment that the only true “optimization” of human nature occurs through sanctifying grace, the infused virtues, and the sacraments of the true Church?
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, proclaimed that Christ the King must reign over all aspects of human life, including technology and industry, and that “the State is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” Yet the conciliar approach to AI is not to subject it to the Kingship of Christ but to baptize it with Catholic-sounding terminology while leaving its fundamentally anti-Christian structure intact. This is the Modernist method condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the appearance of continuity with Catholic doctrine while its substance is hollowed out and replaced with naturalism.
The Idolatry of “Dialogue” with the Architects of Digital Enslavement
Perhaps nothing exposes the spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar sect more vividly than the presence of Chris Olah, founder of Anthropic, and Amanda Askell, a philosopher shaping AI “personalities,” at the Vatican for the encyclical’s launch. The article attempts to defend this grotesque spectacle by quoting Matthew Harvey Sanders: “The Holy See is not selecting a preferred partner from the AI industry. It is engaging all of them, on its own terms, with its own framework for what is at stake.”
This is the language of the Great Apostasy. The true Church engaged with the world not by sitting at the table of Lucifer’s representatives but by condemning error and converting souls to Christ the King. Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei, taught that the Church must maintain its independence from secular powers and judge all human activity by the light of divine revelation. The conciliar sect, by contrast, has adopted the posture of a supplicant seeking “respectful dialogue” with the very forces that are constructing the infrastructure of a digital totalitarianism that will make all previous tyrannies look primitive.
The AI industry, as described even by the article’s sympathetic sources, is built upon the exploitation of “young people, predominantly women, mostly in the Global South” who “look at disturbing material for hours, often for pennies.” This is not merely an injustice to be remedied within the system; it is the fruit of a system built upon the denial of human dignity as understood by Catholic theology. The conciliar response is not to condemn the system but to seek its ethical “alignment” — a project doomed to failure because, as St. Paul teaches, “the natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him” (1 Cor. 2:14). No amount of ethical programming can make a system built upon the exploitation of the vulnerable and the concentration of power in the hands of a technocratic elite into an instrument of genuine human good.
Transhumanism: The Logical Endpoint of a Church Without Grace
The article notes that the encyclical addresses transhumanism, the idea that “human nature can be surpassed or perfected by various technological interventions.” The antipope’s response is described as offering “a very positive counterproposal: participation in God’s divine nature and not merely an indefinite extension of earthly life.” Yet even this formulation reveals the Modernist corruption at work.
True Catholic teaching holds that participation in God’s divine nature is achieved exclusively through sanctifying grace, meritorious works performed in the state of grace, and the beatific vision in heaven — not through any technological intervention. The very fact that the encyclical must address the question of merging humans with AI systems reveals how far the conciliar sect has drifted from the supernatural faith. When Pius XI proclaimed the Social Kingship of Christ, he did not need to address transhumanism because the Catholic world understood that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) — not artificial intelligence, not technological enhancement, but Jesus Christ alone.
The conciliar approach to transhumanism is not to condemn it as the mortal sin against hope and charity that it is, but to offer a “Catholic” version that accepts the fundamental premise — that human nature is deficient and must be improved — while adding a supernatural veneer. This is precisely the error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili (Proposition 58): “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” The transhumanists and the Modernist “bishops” agree that human nature is malleable; they merely disagree on the mechanism of transformation.
The Silence That Condemns: What the Encyclical Omits
The most damning indictment of Magnifica Humanitas is not what it says but what it omits. In an encyclical addressing technology that will reshape every dimension of human life, there is no mention of:
The Kingship of Christ over technology and industry. Pius XI’s Quas Primas explicitly taught that Christ’s authority extends over all created things and that states have a duty to publicly honor Him. Where is the call for nations to submit their AI development to the moral law as interpreted by the true Church?
The reality of original sin and its effects on human reason. The entire Modernist project, including this encyclical, operates on the assumption that human reason, properly organized, can solve the problems created by human sinfulness. Catholic teaching holds that “without Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5) and that fallen human nature requires grace to act rightly.
The necessity of the true Church and her sacraments for salvation. The encyclical speaks of “human dignity” and “flourishing” as if these could be achieved outside the Catholic Church. Yet the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus remains the teaching of the Church, and no technological advancement can substitute for the grace conferred through the sacraments validly administered by true priests.
The reality of the devil and his operations. The Modernist denial of the devil, condemned by St. Pius X, reaches its absurd culmination in an encyclical that discusses the most powerful tool of social control ever created without acknowledging the possibility of demonic influence on its development and deployment.
The Last Things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell. The entire document is written as if this life were the only reality that matters, as if the “world we are building” were an end in itself rather than a preparation for eternity. This is pure naturalism dressed in Catholic vocabulary.
The “Hopeful Document” of a Hopeless Sect
Paolo Carozza, described as co-chair of Meta’s Oversight Board, calls the encyclical “a very hopeful document, not a doomsaying one.” This assessment reveals the fundamental disconnect between the conciliar sect and the reality of the Great Apostasy. The true Church has never been “doomsaying” in the sense of despairing; she has always proclaimed the triumph of Christ the King and the ultimate victory of good over evil. But she has also never hesitated to condemn error in the strongest terms and to warn of the eternal consequences of sin.
The conciliar sect, having abandoned the supernatural faith, has nothing left but “hope” in human progress and technological solutions. This is not Christian hope, which is a theological virtue infused by God and directed toward eternal life; it is the false hope of Modernism, condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Proposition 6): “The faith of Christ is in opposition to human reason and divine revelation not only is not useful, but is even hurtful to the perfection of man.”
The article’s enthusiastic reception of the encyclical by AI industry insiders reveals the true nature of the conciliar project: not the conversion of the world to Christ, but the baptism of the world’s projects with Catholic terminology. This is the religion of humanity that Auguste Comte envisioned and that the Modernists have attempted to build within the structures of the visible Church.
Conclusion: The True Church Endures While the Temple of the Antichrist Rises
The faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and remain united to the true Church through valid sacraments and the unchanging teaching of the pre-conciliar Magisterium must recognize in documents like Magnifica Humanitas the final fruits of the Modernist apostasy. The conciliar sect’s embrace of artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and the technocratic paradigm is not a surprise but the inevitable consequence of a church that has rejected the supernatural order.
Let the faithful take heed: the true Church, though persecuted and driven underground, endures in those who hold fast to the faith of the Fathers, the canons of the Councils, and the unchanging teaching of the Roman Pontiffs up to and including Pius XII. Let us pray for the conversion of those ensnared in the conciliar sect and for the restoration of the true Church in all her glory. Adveniat regnum tuum — Thy kingdom come, not through artificial intelligence, but through the triumph of Christ the King over all the works of men and demons.
Source:
‘A Hopeful Document’: Catholic Thinkers on AI Assess ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ (ncregister.com)
Date: 26.05.2026