ITC’s “Quo vadis, humanitas?”: Modernist Anthropology’s Death Rattle

The Pillar Catholic portal reports on the International Theological Commission’s (ITC) new document, Quo vadis, humanitas? (“Humanity, where are you going?”), published under the approval of the antipope “Pope Leo XIV” and his doctrinal chief, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández. The text purports to address 21st-century anthropological challenges, specifically transhumanism and posthumanism, by building on Vatican II’s Gaudium et spes. Its core argument is that human identity is a “gift and a task” defined by relationships, with the ultimate goal being “divinization” (theosis) through a “saving relationship” with God. The document frames its mission as offering a Christian alternative to techno-utopian fantasies, positioning the conciliar church as the sole credible voice on humanity’s future. This is not a development of Catholic theology but a systematic repudiation of it, replacing the immutable truths of the faith with a fluid, immanentist humanism that is fundamentally at odds with the Catholic religion.