National Catholic Register portal reports that Professor Mark Miravalle, a prominent Mariologist in the conciliar sect, discusses the Marian dimension of the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas by the antipope Leo XIV, framing Mary’s “fiat” as a spiritual corrective to the challenges posed by artificial intelligence. The article presents Mary as the model of authentic humanity whose obedience to God contrasts with the dehumanizing tendencies of AI, echoing themes from the International Theological Commission’s document Quo Vadis, Humanitas?. While the piece attempts to link Marian devotion with contemporary technological anxieties, it operates entirely within the framework of post-conciliar modernism, reducing the supernatural reality of the Incarnation and the Church’s social teaching to a humanistic response to secular threats, thereby obscuring the true sources of the crisis: the abandonment of integral Catholic doctrine and the reign of Christ the King.
The Reduction of Mary to a Humanist Symbol
The central thesis of the article—that Mary’s “Yes” at the Annunciation serves as an antidote to the dehumanizing effects of artificial intelligence—reveals a profound misunderstanding of both Marian theology and the nature of the current crisis. Miravalle states: “No one manifests human personhood and humanity better than Our Lady. She does so perfectly. She’s the immaculate human person, and she keeps the proper order of things integrated.” While this may sound pious, it subtly shifts the focus from Mary’s role as Theotokos (God-bearer) and Mediatrix of all graces to that of a moral exemplar for navigating technological change. This is not the Mary of Tradition, who is the “terror of demons” and the “health of the sick,” but a domesticated figure enlisted in the service of a anthropocentric, progressivist agenda.
The article’s language is saturated with the vocabulary of modernist anthropology: “human personhood,” “human dignity,” “vocations,” “call to holiness.” These terms, emptied of their supernatural content, become slogans in a campaign to defend a purely naturalistic conception of man against the encroachments of technology. The real danger of AI, however, lies not in its potential to “disembody” us or reduce us to “disjointed facts,” but in its capacity to further enthrone the reign of human pride and rebellion against God—a sin that predates the digital age by millennia. As Pope Pius IX warned in the Syllabus of Errors, the fundamental error of modernity is the belief that “human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Proposition 3). AI is merely the latest fruit of this rationalist apostasy.
The Omission of Christ’s Kingship and the Church’s Social Doctrine
Most glaringly, the article completely ignores the only true solution to the disorders of the modern times: the public acknowledgment of Christ the King over all nations, families, and individuals. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas, 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 that “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” The crisis precipitated by AI is not primarily a technological or anthropological problem, but a spiritual one—a manifestation of the “plague that poisons human society” because men have “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life.”
Instead of calling for the restoration of Christ’s social reign, the article offers a vague exhortation to “choose God and his will and humility.” This is the language of the conciliar sect, which has replaced the Church’s mission of converting nations with a program of “dialogue” and “human development.” The antipope Leo XIV’s encyclical, as described, fits perfectly within this paradigm, using Marian devotion as a tool to soften the edges of a fundamentally naturalistic social teaching. The true remedy for the Tower of Babel that AI represents is not Mary’s “Yes” in isolation, but the submission of all human endeavors—including technology—to the laws of Christ the King, as taught by Pius XI: “His royal dignity demands that all relations in the state be ordered on the basis of God’s commandments and Christian principles, both in the issuing of laws and in the administration of justice, as well as in the education and formation of youth in sound doctrine and purity of morals.”
The Modernist Hermeneutic of “Signs of the Times”
The article’s approach is a textbook example of the modernist method condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. It treats the “signs of the times” (in this case, AI) as the primary locus of theological reflection, rather than the immutable deposit of faith. Miravalle’s assertion that the Church must respond to “another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence” echoes the condemned proposition that “the progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption” (Lamentabili, Proposition 64). The Faith does not adapt to the world; the world must conform to the Faith.
Furthermore, the coupling of Marian devotion with a specific, time-bound technological issue risks reducing her to a “mode of explanation” for contemporary anxieties, a concept St. Pius X explicitly condemned: “Dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy, both in concept and in reality, are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness” (Lamentabili, Proposition 54). Mary’s role is not to help us navigate the age of AI, but to lead us to her Son, the King of Kings, whose authority is eternal and unchanging.
The Silence on the True Sources of the Crisis
The article remains silent on the true causes of the moral and spiritual chaos that enables the misuse of AI: the apostasy of the conciliar church. Since the Second Vatican Council, the structures occupying the Vatican have promoted a spirit of “false ecumenism” and “religious liberty” that has gutted the Church’s prophetic voice and left society defenseless against the assaults of secularism and technocracy. The “rush toward artificial intelligence” is a consequence of a world that has rejected the supernatural order, a rejection fostered by the modernist clergy who have “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs.”
Mark Miravalle, despite his academic credentials in Mariology, operates within and legitimizes these structures. His promotion of the antipope’s encyclical, without a single reference to the social reign of Christ or the errors of modernism, demonstrates how even specialized theological disciplines have been co-opted by the conciliar revolution. The antidote to the Tower of Babel is not a new Marian devotion tailored to the digital age, but a return to the integral Catholic faith, the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as offered in its unadulterated form, and the recognition that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12)—not even the name of “Magnifica Humanitas.”
In conclusion, the article represents a sophisticated but ultimately bankrupt attempt to harness the Blessed Virgin Mary in the service of a modernist project. It substitutes the horizontal, human-centered concerns of the conciliar sect for the vertical, God-centered order established by Christ and His Church. Until the antipopes and their theologians acknowledge that the primary crisis is one of faith and authority, and not of technology, their solutions will remain as hollow as the algorithms they purport to critique. The true “Magnificat” is not a program for humanistic progress, but a hymn of praise to the omnipotent God who “has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly”—a truth no artificial intelligence can compute.
Source:
Mary’s ‘Yes’ in the Age of AI: The Marian Heart of ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ (ncregister.com)
Date: 16.06.2026