When Pope Leo XIV invited Anthropic to speak at the Vatican launch of his new encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, many asked: was it genuine dialogue — or a photo op? Matthew Harvey Sanders, Fr. Michael Baggot, and Fr. Kenny Ang take it head-on, tracing the conversation from machine consciousness and designer babies to the transhumanist push to leave our humanity behind — all through the lens of the Pope's new encyclical on AI.

• Why an AI lab came to the Vatican
• Could AI actually be conscious?
• The danger of treating AI as human
• The Pope's encyclical on AI
• Could a machine ever get a soul?
• When Claude got deceptive
• Designer babies and transhumanism
• Merging with machines: Neuralink
• The Church's better vision
• Open source vs. Big Tech control