magnifica-humanitas-mcp

An MCP server for navigating Magnifica Humanitas — Pope Leo XIV's 2026 encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.

Fetches the document live from the Vatican website and exposes it as structured MCP tools, so any LLM client can navigate the text without loading all 245 paragraphs into context at once.

Tools

Tool	Description
`list_structure()`	Full table of contents with paragraph ranges
`get_chapter(number)`	Full text of a chapter (1–5)
`get_section(title)`	Full text of a section by title (fuzzy match)
`get_paragraph(number)`	A single numbered paragraph
`search(query, limit)`	Find paragraphs containing a word or phrase

Usage

With `npx` (no install needed)

npx magnifica-humanitas-mcp

With `uvx` (requires uv)

uvx magnifica-humanitas-mcp

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "magnifica-humanitas": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "magnifica-humanitas-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add magnifica-humanitas -- npx -y magnifica-humanitas-mcp

Docker

docker run --rm grimalkinllc/magnifica-humanitas-mcp

License

The MCP server code is MIT licensed. The encyclical text is © Copyright Dicastery for Communication – Libreria Editrice Vaticana. This tool fetches that content from the Vatican's website at runtime and does not redistribute it.

Contributing

See docs/contributing.md for development setup and release process.

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