Antipope Leo XIV: Encyclical Letter ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence (May 15, 2026)

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:

• “Magnifica Humanitas” – What Unites the Mathematician Pope to the AI Technocrats. And What Divides Them (Settimo Cielo)
• Magnifica Humanitas: Pope Leo’s AI encyclical warns of temptation to build future excluding God (OSV News)
• ‘Magnifica Humanitas’: Reading Pope Leo’s vision between the lines (OSV News)
• Analysing AI’s impact on media, communities and inequalities (Vatican News)
• Think, collaborate, learn: How to preserve our humanity in the time of AI (Vatican News)
• What is Anthropic? A look at the company joining Pope Leo for AI encyclical release (OSV News)
• Magnifica Humanitas: Pope invokes justice to combat ‘anti-human vision’ in AI (Catholic World Report)
• Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI a ‘powerful reminder’ of human dignity, says Archbishop Coakley (OSV News)
• Remaining human in the age of algorithms (Vatican News)
• Pope Leo the practical: What ordinary people can do to fight threats from AI (National Catholic Reporter)
• EWTN News explains: What is a papal encyclical? (Catholic World Report)
• EWTN News explains: Why do popes issue papal documents and what are they? (Catholic World Report)
• Vatican II’s religion of man on full display in Leo’s AI encyclical (Integrity Magazine)
• Facing the AI challenge, Leo XIV is asking, ‘What does it mean to be human?’ (Crux)
• Pope Leo, Anthropic co-founder call for church-tech ethics partnership at ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ release (National Catholic Reporter)
• Bishop Flores: Pope Leo’s AI encyclical is coming. Don’t let ChatGPT read it for you (America)
• Leo XIV to Release First Encyclical on AI and Human Dignity May 25 (Per Mariam via Pelican Brief)
• Live updates: ‘Magnifica humanitas’ aims to address ‘culture of power’ in AI (The Pillar)
• Anna Rowlands: Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica humanitas’ will have enduring impact (Vatican News)
• In ‘Magnifica Humanitas,’ Pope Leo delivers on a people-first vision for AI (National Catholic Reporter)
• With his first encyclical, Pope Leo hits it out of the ballpark (National Catholic Reporter)
• Tolkien, Beethoven, MLK Jr., and Hannah Arendt: The voices that resonate in Magnifica Humanitas (Catholic World Report)
• Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See’s own role in legitimizing slavery (National Catholic Reporter)
• Leo XIV: Between the social encyclical and the change of an era (MondayVatican)
• Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity (Crux)
• What the pope’s new encyclical on AI Is asking of you (OSV News)
• Vatican cardinal warns of ‘painful consequences’ from AI ‘deepfakes’ (Life Site)

The Vatican officially introduced the encyclical today with a press conference over which ‘Pope’ Leo XIV presided. It can be watched here:

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A transcript of Leo XIV’s presentation at the press conference can be found here.

We have run the text of Magnifica Humanitas through a word cloud generator. According to it, these are the most-used words found in the encyclical:

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