CNA Explains: What is Transhumanism?

September 29, 2025 by Kateri

Just days into his pontificate, at his first meeting with the College of Cardinals on May 10, Pope Leo identified AI as “another industrial revolution” that can “pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labor.”

Centuries before secular authors wrote about transhumanism, Dante insisted that the transhumanizing experience of heavenly transfiguration is so sublime that even his poetic genius cannot capture it fully in words.

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