AI-Generated Saints and the Usurper’s Visit: A Modernist Spectacle
The National Catholic Register reports that the organizing committee for the apostolic journey of the usurper Leo XIV to Spain has unveiled a promotional campaign featuring ten figures—nine “saints” and one “venerable”—generated through artificial intelligence. The selection, tied to the venues of the visit and the celebration of Corpus Christi, includes St. Isidore the Laborer, St. Mary of the Head, St. Soledad Torres Acosta, Venerable Antonio Gaudí, St. Eulalia, St. Peter of St. Joseph Betancourt, St. Joseph of Anchieta, St. Teresa of Ávila, St. Paschal Baylon, and St. Manuel González. The project presents these figures as examples of those who “searched for God in the world” and “found the extraordinary in the ordinary.” This initiative is not merely a technological novelty; it is a profound symptom of the post-conciliar Church’s descent into naturalism, where the supernatural reality of sanctity is reduced to a humanistic narrative, and the sacred is mediated through the profane machinery of artificial intelligence.
