Brussels Bans AI Nudifier Apps Ahead of Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas Encyclical
National Catholic Register portal (May 21, 2026) reports that European Union lawmakers have reached a provisional agreement to ban artificial intelligence “nudifier” applications and systems used to generate child sexual abuse material, a move welcomed by the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) and various ethicists in anticipation of “Pope” Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence, scheduled for release on May 25. Irish MEP Michael McNamara described these AI tools as “an attack on the fundamental rights of real people, particularly the inviolability of human dignity and the right to privacy,” while COMECE adviser Friederike Ladenburger stated that nudifier applications constitute “a form of technological exploitation that objectifies the person.” The article also notes delays in implementing “high-risk” AI rules until 2027–2028 and highlights ongoing interfaith and Vatican dialogue on AI ethics, including private talks between COMECE leadership and Leo XIV.
While the prohibition of technologies facilitating the sexual exploitation of minors and the nonconsensual manipulation of intimate imagery is a measure that any Catholic can support on natural law grounds, the article’s framing — embedded in the bureaucratic language of EU regulatory structures, the uncritical deference to conciliar “bishops'” conferences, and the anticipatory reverence for an encyclical from a usurper antipope — reveals the profound theological and spiritual bankruptcy of the post-conciliar apparatus. What is presented as a triumph of “human dignity” discourse is, in reality, a symptom of a civilization that has abandoned the supernatural order and now seeks to legislate morality through the machinery of secular governance, all while genuflecting before the abomination of desolation occupying Peter’s throne.







