When the Usurper Speaks, Even a Politician Notices the Contradiction

The National Catholic Register, carrying a report from Catholic News Agency, reports that U.S. Vice President JD Vance, speaking at the Air Force Academy commencement on May 28, 2026, praised the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas by the usurper Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), echoing its warnings about artificial intelligence making life-and-death decisions in warfare. Vance told graduates that “decisions over life and death must be made by humans and not machines,” and that AI lacks moral conscience. Yet the same encyclical, while ostensibly defending human dignity, simultaneously declares the Church’s just-war theory “outdated” — a position that directly contradicts two millennia of Catholic moral theology and, not coincidentally, aligns with the conciliar sect’s broader project of dismantling every doctrine that stands in the way of globalist pacifism and moral relativism. The article, sourced from EWTN News and the National Catholic Register, presents this convergence of a secular politician’s prudential warnings with a usurper’s novel teaching as though it were a harmonious meeting of minds. It is nothing of the sort. It is the predictable result of a counterfeit magisterium whose every pronouncement, even when it accidentally grazes a true principle, is embedded in a framework of doctrinal subversion.