Leo XIV’s first encyclical letter…
Antipope Leo XIV
ENCYCLICAL MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS
On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
May 15, 2026
The Vatican’s infinite text factory has just released another whopper of a document: Robert Prevost (a.k.a. ‘Pope Leo XIV’) has released his first Encyclical Letter. It is entitled Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”).
In its English version, Magnifica Humanitas has 42,088 words. It consists of five chapters, an introduction, and a conclusion. The text includes a total of 245 numbered paragraphs, and it has 224 footnotes.
The Vatican has made the text of Magnifica Humanitas available in sundry languages, of which we make the following available as direct links:
- Full Text of Magnifica Humanitas in English
- Full Text of Magnifica Humanitas in Spanish
- Full Text of Magnifica Humanitas in French
- Full Text of Magnifica Humanitas in Italian
- Full Text of Magnifica Humanitas in German
- Full Text of Magnifica Humanitas in Portuguese
- Full Text of Magnifica Humanitas in Polish
Highlights of the encyclical letter’s contents are also available:
- Video: These are the key points of ‘Magnifica Humanitas’, the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV (Rome Reports)
- Video: Magnifica Humanitas (Vatican News)
- Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: A Summary in English (Zenit)
- Inside “Magnifica Humanitas”: Pope Leo XIV Rejects Transhumanism (Diane Montagna)
- 13 things to know about Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI (OSV News)
- Pope Leo presents ‘Magnifica humanitas’ calling for disarmament of AI (Vatican News)
- 10 quotes from Pope Leo’s first encyclical you should know for the era of AI (OSV News)
- 8 things to know about Pope Leo XIV’s sweeping AI manifesto (National Catholic Reporter)
- Pope Leo reaffirms right to life, condemns slavery, transhumanism in first encyclical (Life Site)
- The 3 most important themes in ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ (National Catholic Reporter)
- ‘Magnifica humanitas’: A reader’s guide (The Pillar)
- Leo in new AI text condemns ‘culture of power’ that fuels war (Crux)
- BREAKING: Leo XIV’s new encyclical makes Christ equivalent to mere human beings (Life Site)
- Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica humanitas’: AI must serve humanity not concentrate power (Vatican News)
- Magnifica Humanitas: Leo critiques Godless society and ‘cultural blindness’ (Per Mariam via Pelican Brief)
- Pope Leo calls to ‘disarm’ AI in major document, warns of technologic threats to humanity (National Catholic Reporter)
- Leo’s First Encyclical: AI is a ‘Change of Epoch’ for Humanity (Where Peter Is)
- Leo says the use of AI must not inhibit human dignity or create ‘new colonialism’ (Crux)
- Babel, Nehemiah and algorithms: A guide to key terms in Pope Leo’s new encyclical on AI (OSV News)
The following is a list of links with initial coverage, summaries, background, and commentary on Magnifica Humanitas, as well as related news, by sources of various stripes:
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