The Neo-Church’s Digital Idolatry: AI Ethics as a Substitute for the Reign of Christ the King
The National Catholic Register reports that DePaul University hosted a conference on April 30–May 1, 2026, titled “Pope Leo XIV: From the Americas, For the World,” where Jesuit Father Philip Larrey discussed the usurper antipope’s approach to artificial intelligence. Larrey praised Leo XIV’s “fresh” and “humane” take on AI, emphasizing that “machines do not have a soul” and that only God can create one. The conference, organized by DePaul’s Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, framed AI as a pressing ethical concern for the conciliar sect, with Larrey warning that AI threatens to “alter radically some of the fundamental pillars of human civilization.” This entire discourse, however, reveals the profound spiritual bankruptcy of post-conciliarism: while the neo-church obsesses over the ethics of digital machines, it has abandoned the immutable Catholic doctrine of the soul, the supernatural order, and the social reign of Christ the King—replacing them with a naturalistic humanism dressed in theological vestments.





