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OPINION: Vatican II’s Religion of Man on Full Display in Leo’s AI Encyclical, by Riaan Van Zyl – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

OPINION: Vatican II’s Religion of Man on Full Display in Leo’s AI Encyclical, by Riaan Van Zyl

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AI-generated image. Vatican, Tower of Babel. Integrity Magazine.

By Riaan Van Zyl, Integrity Magazine, May 25, 2026

Riaan Van Zyl is a convert to the faith, an ultra-Traditionalist Catholic Counter-Revolutionary, and advocate for integralism. A seasoned journalist, he has worked as a crime and political reporter, investigative writer, and columnist. His Catholic writing has thus far appeared on his blog, Radical Fidelity. He occasionally commits poetry and lives in Roodepoort, South Africa

 

Magnifica Humanitas unironically denounces the Tower of Babel while enthusiastically calling for a global humanitarianism.

riaanLeo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, arrived with immense fanfare from the sycophantic “Catholic” media, as well as global and globalist attention.

Presented as a social encyclical for the age of artificial intelligence (AI), it seeks to apply Catholic social doctrine to the digital revolution in an attempt to mimic how Leo XIII applied it to the Industrial Revolution in Rerum Novarum in 1891.

But we are dealing with the Synodal Church. Per usual, the document turns out to be a long (244 paragraphs) secular, humanist glorification of man and the temporal order. In other words, it is yet another love letter to the Synodal false religion. …