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Vatican Warns Against Cosmetic Surgery’s ‘Cult of the Body’
The Vatican's International Theological Commission cautions 1.4 billion Catholics that cosmetic surgery may foster vanity and warns of AI and cyborg risks affecting human identity.
- On March 4, the Vatican's International Theological Commission issued a 48-page document approved by Pope Leo XIV warning the world's 1.4 billion Catholics against cosmetic surgery.
- The commission warned that advances in cosmetic surgery significantly change the relationship with one’s corporeality, fostering a widespread `cult of the body` and reducing the body to mere material.
- Written by a subcommission that met 2022–2025, the document was approved unanimously at the ITC's 2025 plenary and published in Italian and Spanish after papal approval, raising concerns about automated AI decision-making and `digital spiritualism`.
- Against technological excess, it calls for prioritizing the poor and frames life as vocation, urging receiving oneself as a gift while warning the weakest risk becoming `collateral damage`.
- Citing broader risks, the document warns that total trust in technology risks replacing the `living God` with a counterfeit `virtual God`, and insists humanity's future is not decided in bioengineering laboratories.
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