{"id":852353,"date":"2026-09-18T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852353\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:42:09","slug":"someone-gifted-the-pope-a-giant-hunk-of-materia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852353\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Gifted The Pope A Giant Hunk Of Materia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Someone has given Pope Leo XIV a big chunk of Materia to start the day:<\/p>\n

How, uh, nice! His Holiness looked thrilled by the gift. I am sure he is, as we speak, pondering which of his many weapons he should equip it to, or if he should give it to one of his party members (Cardinals) for them to make use of it.<\/p>\n

This looks like Magic Materia, specifically, which would allow Pope Leo to cast both black and white magic spells in combat if he equips it. It\u2019s unclear exactly which spell this Materia is for; however, the people who gifted it to the Pope may have provided a clue. The Materia was brought to Pope Leo by a group called Saint Peter for Humanity, a Vatican-affiliated nonprofit that, per its own website, works \u201cto preserve, promote, and share humanity\u2019s cultural, spiritual, and material heritage for the common good.\u201d The group claims that this orb is a \u201csymbolic\u201d piece of work intended to represent the idea of retaining humanity in an age of AI.<\/p>\n

This topic is coming up now in front of the Holy See because Pope Leo recently addressed this matter in an encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, in which he called for AI to be \u201cdisarmed\u201d in favor of focusing on the human person, as distinct from machines. \u201cTo disarm does not mean rejecting technology,\u201d he wrote. \u201cbut preventing it from dominating humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s an orb got to do with it? In a video shared with Fox News<\/a>, St. Peter for Humanity head (and, uh the CEO of Fiat and CMO of Stellantis?), Olivier Fran\u00e7ois, described the orb as follows:<\/p>\n

The sphere is a Murano sphere, so it\u2019s blown by hand, and the breathing of humans, the symbolism of the sphere is that it\u2019s a perfect shape, but executed in a very imperfect way, which is the human way, because humans breathe, robots don\u2019t breathe, and this ability to breathe helps us create beautiful things, which are not always perfect but so much more beautiful.<\/p>\n

To me, this screams Wind Materia, meaning that if the Pope equips it, he might be able to cast Aero, Aerora, or even Aeroga.<\/p>\n

That said, I do not think the Pope should equip this Materia, because I am suspicious of its origins. It\u2019s hard to immediately find any information as to what this Saint Peter for Humanity charity actually, practically does, and its leadership is uh, interesting. One of its board members is Kimbal Musk. Yes, correct, that\u2019s Elon Musk\u2019s brother, and yes, he is in the Epstein files! The board also includes television producer Mark Burnett (creator of The Apprentice and currently Trump\u2019s special envoy to the UK). Not great!<\/p>\n

Anyway, all that just tells me that this Materia is cursed. I\u2019m sorry, Your Holiness, I know your face in this photo clearly indicated that you very much love and desire this orb, but you\u2019re going to need to let it go. Maybe see if Chadley wants it. When do you really need to cast Aeroga, anyway? I assumed the Holy Spirit had you well-covered on that front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning. Someone has given Pope Leo XIV a big chunk of Materia to start the day: How,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[29755,74],"class_list":["post-852353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-final-fantasy","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}