Digital Idolatry: The Neo-Church’s Surrender to the Algorithm as “Primary Mission”
The *National Catholic Register* (EWTN News) portal reports on an interview with French philosopher and media executive Emmanuel Tourpe, conducted on the sidelines of the Zermatt Summit in Switzerland (September 2026). Tourpe argues that the “challenge of media, communication and the digital world” has become the “primary focus of the mission,” claiming an unexpected “Catholic revival” in Europe requires the Church to master digital language just as the Apostles learned Greek. He posits a “philosophy of love” — drawing on the modernist Jean-Luc Marion — as Christianity’s belated proprietary contribution to Western thought, and holds up the conciliar media outlets EWTN and KTO as models of successful adaptation. This article is a manifesto of the neo-church’s definitive apostasy: it replaces the supernatural mandate of *salus animarum* with a naturalistic strategy of digital relevance, enthroning the algorithm as the new Holy Ghost.