Vatican News portal (December 28, 2025) reports on presidential elections in the Central African Republic where Faustin-Archange Touadera seeks to extend his rule after abolishing term limits through a contentious referendum. Opposition leaders denounce the process as a “sham” while international observers monitor elections occurring amidst allegations of campaign obstruction and historical poverty in this mineral-rich nation. The report frames these events through secular democratic norms while avoiding any reference to the divine moral order governing civil authority.
Usurpation of Power Against Divine and Natural Law
The abolition of presidential term limits constitutes a direct violation of the principle of aequitas naturalis (natural equity) which requires temporal rulers to govern as stewards under God’s eternal law. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “Kings and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (n. 32). Touadera’s power grab through manipulated constitutional changes reveals the modern state’s apostasy from its duty to serve the bonum commune (common good) – a concept explicitly defined by Leo XIII as requiring rulers to “assure the public welfare and the prosperity of the people, not in accordance with the whims of the multitude, but in conformity with the eternal laws of God” (Immortale Dei, 1885). The article’s neutral description of this tyranny as mere “controversy” exemplifies the conciliar sect’s betrayal of Catholic social doctrine.
False “Peace” Over Justice
António Guterres’ call for “peaceful, orderly, inclusive and credible” elections ignores the fundamental truth that no political process lacking submission to Christ the King can achieve legitimacy. The UN Secretary-General’s empty appeals exemplify the naturalism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors, which rejects the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). True peace derives solely from Christ’s reign, as Pius XI taught: “When all men…shall willingly obey the authority of Christ the King, then at last it will be possible to say that the peace of Christ has come to men in the kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas, n. 19). The article’s silence on CAR’s 60-year abandonment of its Catholic baptismal vows (90% Catholic population) exposes the conciliar sect’s complicity in national apostasy.
Economic Injustice as Consequence of Apostasy
Vatican News’ superficial mention of CAR’s mineral wealth coexisting with pervasive poverty neglects the theological cause: rejection of the principatus Christi (kingship of Christ). Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum establishes that material destitution flows from spiritual rebellion: “When the religion of Christ is removed…the very notion of justice and human rights becomes obscured and lost” (n. 34). The report’s secular analysis exemplifies the modernist error condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili (Proposition 64): that Christian doctrine must “be reformed in keeping with modern progress” rather than governing economic life.
Illegitimate Sacramental Language in Political Context
The article’s reference to “2.3 million people registered to vote” employs democratic sacramentalism to sanctify revolutionary processes. This echoes the conciliar sect’s invalid “synodal path” ecclesiology, condemned by Pius VI in Auctorem Fidei as “heretical propositions establishing a pretended church constitution” (1794). True authority stems not from ballot boxes but from submission to divine law, as St. Paul teaches: “Non est potestas nisi a Deo – There is no power but from God” (Romans 13:1). The absence of any Catholic bishop’s condemnation of Touadera’s usurpation confirms the conciliar hierarchy’s apostasy.
Pseudo-Charity Masking Cowardice
The report’s concluding plea to “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home” constitutes blasphemous irony when the same portal refuses to proclaim Christ’s social kingship. This aligns with Bergoglio’s false mercy paradigm condemned by St. Pius X as “the falsehood of affection which corrupts the truth” (Pascendi, 37). Authentic Catholic mission requires denouncing tyrannical regimes, following St. John the Baptist’s confrontation of Herod – not the conciliar sect’s diplomatic cowardice masquerading as “dialogue“.
Source:
Central African Republic votes amid term limit controversy (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.12.2025