Magnifica Humanitas: Modernist Anthropocentrism Disguised as Catholic Social Teaching
The National Register commentary by Paolo Carozza, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame and co-chair of Meta’s “Oversight Board,” attempts to present “Pope” Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas as a profound meditation on human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence. Carozza argues that the encyclical’s true brilliance lies not in its treatment of technology but in its supposed deepening of the Church’s understanding of human dignity—its relational character, its unity of body, mind, and spirit, and even its relationship to human frailty and limitation. What Carozza’s enthusiastic endorsement reveals, however, is not the profundity of the conciliar sect’s magisterium but the utter bankruptcy of its theological method: a naturalistic, anthropocentric humanism that reduces the supernatural destiny of man to a horizontal, worldly project of “flourishing,” while systematically evading the only framework within which human dignity can truly be understood—the framework of original sin, redemption through the Cross, and the absolute sovereignty of Christ the King over all dimensions of human existence.





