The Neo-Church’s AI Commission: A Digital Tower of Babel Masquerading as Moral Authority
The National Catholic Register reports that the Vatican has established a new commission on artificial intelligence, approved by the antipope Leo XIV, as part of preparations for his expected first encyclical addressing AI through the lens of Catholic social teaching. The body includes representatives from multiple conciliar dicasteries and pontifical academies, coordinated by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. The stated purpose is to address AI’s implications for human dignity, integral development, and the Church’s internal use of technology. “In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor,” Leo XIV declared when explaining his choice of papal name to the College of Cardinals on May 10, 2025. This entire enterprise is a grotesque exercise in bureaucratic self-aggrandizement by an institution that has forfeited all claim to speak with moral authority on any subject, let alone one of such gravity.




