AI and the Modernist Reframing of Catholic History
After training minds to accept ambiguity, modernists now warn, through the mouth of their commander-in-chief, that ambiguity is dangerous. W hat AI does or poses to do, technologically modernists have already done spiritually over the decades while claiming the Catholic name and pretending to teach with Catholic authority. Prologue: A Paragraph of Particular Concern Many promotional posts have been published by enthusiasts of modernist aggiornamento in praise of the Imitator of Leo ’s first pretended encyclical letter, Magnifica Humanitas . Taken together, they demonstrate how the key points in it are overwhelmingly about anthropology, natural ethics, and mundane civilization, and less about man’s supernatural and last End. When it speaks of Christ, He is presented chiefly as the model of authentic humanity and relational communion. While there is an element of truth in this, the emphasis is merely existential and personalist rather than strongly red...