MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS - & ANTHROPIC AI

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"Magnificat Humanitas" (Magnificent Humanity, HM) is Leo XIV's first encyclical. Perhaps it's premature to remark, of its preview, that the title is exactly what one would expect. It mirrors the Vatican II Freemasonic invention of the Novus Ordo Mass in its elevation of man and reduction of his Creator - that "humanity might recover and strengthen confidence in its own capacity" rather than God's which is infinite. 

There will be truths in HM's 180-something pages, in addition to the cursory "contemplation of the Incarnate Word" concluding this authorised preview. Such as we read in tonight's release of the full encyclical: "Magnifica Humanitas states the 'right to life' is the first right and essential to all other rights. When this fundamental right is denied — as in the cases of induced abortion, killing of the innocent and euthanasia — we are faced with choices that the Church considers gravely wrong".

But instead of encyclicling, as it were, on the grievous plight of the human race and a wholesale rejection of the Creator, HM vaunts artificial intelligence, a creation of "Magnificent Humanity" which seeks, like Adam and Eve, to play God. Leo's first encyclical will likely smack of Cardinal 'Tucho' Fernández' turgid prose. It's a safe bet that it will take 180 pages to state the obvious and it won't win souls for Christ.

And what is Chris Olah, co-founder of Anthropic AI - best known for its creation of the Claude chatbot - doing at the launch of a papal encyclical? Maybe he's the reason why Leo himself will be present, unlike his predecessors who absented themselves from such presentations which are usually held in the Vatican press room for selected officials and guests.

Which on this occasion will include the celebrated Cardinal 'Tucho' Fernández , of "Heal Me With Your Mouth - the Art of Kissing" fame. He'll be there, presenting. With Cardinal Michael Czerny, Bergoglio/Francis' point man on migrants who says some African bishops make him "shudder", and one Anna Rowlands, Professor Catholic Social Thought, migration, common good. Oh yes. Ticking all the boxes.

Cardinal Czerny with the Jesuit ‘America’s Gerald O’Connell and wife Elizabeth Pique

Fr Brendan McGuire, a priest once abused by a cleric and who helped write Anthropic's AI ethics code, has said Anthropic had been "basically asking for direct help from the Vatican to convene and help the [AI] industry, because the industry was going so fast down this road”. And with its oversight by the Vatican, Anthropic is making strategic biotech business gains, forming a $1.5 billion joint venture with private equity firms like Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, & Hellman & Friedman to acquire AI services firms. Goldman Sachs is a major Crown banking arm that has major Vatican ties via people like Peter Sutherland.

Fair enough for Anthropic to make the most of its invaluable Vatican contacts to maximise profits by such a golden PR opportunity. But why is Leo XIV (having by his politicking already alienated US President Donald Trump) now involving the papacy-which-is-not-a-papacy (his alliance with big biz making that even more apparent) with a commercial venture? The papacy and the Catholic Church cannot cozy up to the world as Leo does, but must oppose its evil with her full authority - an authority however which is temporarily lost to a counterfeit, a conciliar "Ape" of the Church.

Previous popes have taught and instructed the faithful in what God has revealed. Pre-Vatican II, it was true of G K Chesterton to say that “[t]he Catholic Church is the only thing which saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age”. But by relying on experiences and feelings instead of on the Magisterium, Tradition Scripture, synodal theologians like Leo XIV prove they are in cahoots with the world rather than in love with Christ.

After more 60 years of poor catechesis and insipid homilies from wolves dressed in dralon, the spiritually starved Massgoers (both trad and NO) are begging for food, hoping to save their souls and their children's from falling into hell in a blizzard rather than as the snow flakes so distressing to Our Lady of Fatima, in 1917.

Inside “Magnifica Humanitas”: Pope Leo XIV Rejects Transhumanism

 

Italian journalist Nico Spuntoni offers an exclusive preview of the Pope’s first encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the age of AI.

Diane Montagna May 24

 

In just a few hours, Magnifica Humanitas, the first encyclical of the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV, will be officially presented. Prevost signed the document on May 15, the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the landmark encyclical of his predecessor Pope Leo XIII. It is already well known that its central theme will be the safeguarding of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence.

 

But what will we actually read in this much-anticipated encyclical? We can offer some preview. The Pope’s central argument is that Magnifica Humanitas, when confronted with technological progress, stands before a crossroads between self-sufficiency and solidarity.

 

The text presents this alternative through biblical imagery. The danger of humanity’s excessive power over itself — a concept already explored by Pope Benedict XVI in Spe Salvi — is here reconsidered in light of the development of artificial intelligence and digitalization.

These themes return in the encyclical, where the Pope defends the dignity that belongs to every person simply because he or she is willed, created, and loved by God. The safeguarding of human dignity is presented as the criterion for judging what is good and what is not, even in the sphere of technological development.   What concerns the Pope above all is the risk of moral irresponsibility arising from the use of artificial intelligence, and for this reason the encyclical expands upon warnings he had already issued during the first year of his pontificate.   Finally, it is clear that the Pope who first appeared before the world with the words “peace be with you,” and who later clashed with Donald Trump over the conflict in Iran, could hardly avoid addressing the role of new technologies in warfare.     Christopher Olah. He wouldn't be at the launch unless he knew HM was favorable to Anthropic   In keeping with the traditional position of the Holy See, the defense of multilateralism emerges as unavoidable at a time when it appears more fragile than ever. And while the call for an ethical use of artificial intelligence applies generally, it becomes even more urgent when weapons are involved.   Fr Brendan McGuire https://observer.com/2026/03/the-catholic-priest-who-helped-write-anthropics-ai-ethics-code/   Ultimately, Leo’s encyclical is not opposed to AI; rather, from a characteristically Augustinian perspective, it seeks to guide it toward the realization of the common good.     To this end, Magnifica Humanitas reiterates what the Pope told the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation when he expressed the hope that humanity might recover and strengthen confidence in its own capacity to shape the development of these technologies.   And it is striking that Leo, while addressing such a thoroughly contemporary issue, should feel compelled to point to contemplation of the Incarnate Word as the indispensable path out of the “eclipse of the meaning of what it is to be human,” as he recently stated.https://dianemontagna.substack.com/p/inside-magnifica-humanitas-pope-leo      The tone is neither anti-technology nor utopian. Instead, Pope Leo appears to argue that technological development must remain subordinate to the moral and spiritual flourishing of the person. AI can assist humanity, but it cannot define humanity. Human beings remain uniquely capable of love, sacrifice, worship, moral judgment, and communion with God. With Magnifica Humanitas as Leo XIV’s attempt to answer the cultural crisis of modernity with a renewed Catholic vision of the person: not autonomous individualism, but a humanity ordered toward truth, beauty, community, and divine destiny. Pope St Gregory VII, please pray for the Church