Fr. Michael Baggot, Catholic News Agency
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Transhumanism’s advocates describe it as “the intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally improving the human condition through applied reason . . .” And many transhumanists believe the goal is to eliminate . . . death. And they believe in genetic manipulation of embryos. Yet the movement actually has Catholic roots. Dante insisted that the transhumanizing experience of heavenly transfiguration is so sublime that even his poetic genius could not fully capture it. In “Paradiso” Canto I, 70-71, he writes: “Trasumanar significar per verba, non si poria” (“Passing beyond the human cannot be expressed in words”).
