J.D. Vance endorsed Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas in a May 26 NBC News interview, describing it as profound. The document, issued by the first U.S. pope from Chicago who assumed leadership in 2025, addresses human dignity amid technological change. Multiple Pangram analyses reported 46 percent to 62 percent of sampled text as AI-generated, unlike prior encyclicals rated fully human-written.