A recent article argues that society should break free from its "dependency on religious morality," citing praise for the recent Catholic encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* by Robert Prevost ("Pope Leo XIV") from both "conservative" and "progressive" commentators. The article notes that the editors of the *National Review* reveled that AI companies like Anthropic and eventually "all eyes" looked to the church as a moral authority, while a *Atlantic* columnist praised Prevost's condemnation of any attempt to "eliminate suffering." The article criticizes Prevost's tract for containing "no new data about the consequences of using AI, no proposed experiments for evaluating the effects of regulating it — no new thinking at all," and notes that many of his anecdotes are about "decades-old problems with the digital economy, e.g., the plight of workers involved in reviewing content for 'disturbing material.'" The article concludes that ethical questions about AI should be answered by making "rigorous, critical, ambitious use of the scientific method, rather than religious faith."