🇻🇦🇺🇸 “Where Are You Going, Humanity?” Vatican Releases Critique of American Culture The Vatican's International Theological Commission has published "Quo Vadis, Humanitas?," a sweeping theological document on the future of humanity, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and what the Church calls the modern "cult of the body." Authorized for publication by Pope Leo XIV, the document takes direct aim at the growing belief that science and technology should eliminate aging, disease, and death, labeling transhumanism "the existential expression of a presumption that is both naive and arrogant," and posthumanism, the belief that humans should merge with machines, a "radical devaluation of humanity." On AI, the Commission raises pointed questions about the use of algorithms to decide medical care, loans, criminal sentencing, and military strikes — a theological challenge arriving precisely as AI systems are being used to generate airstrike target lists in the ongoing war on Iran. But the document's sharpest provocation is cultural. In a civilization where cosmetic surgery, performance drugs, and body modification have become normalized. The Vatican insists the mortal, imperfect, aging human body is not a problem to be engineered away. It is a gift to be inhabited.