Chile’s Election: A Conservative Mask on Modernist Compromise
The EWTN News portal reports José Antonio Kast’s victory over Communist Party candidate Jeannette Jara in Chile’s December 2025 presidential runoff. Kast, a self-described conservative Republican Party candidate and Schönstatt member, won 58% of votes after narrowly losing the first round. The article highlights his Catholic identity, pro-life stance, and hardline immigration policies requiring illegal migrants to leave voluntarily or face deportation. Chilean bishops congratulated Kast while urging “dialogue” and “respect,” expressing concern about migrant “denigration” but avoiding doctrinal language.
Naturalism Masquerading as Catholic Politics
Kast’s entire campaign exemplifies the modernist reduction of Catholic social doctrine to secular humanitarianism. While paying lip service to life “from conception to natural death,” he deliberately sidelined abortion—Chile’s gravest moral crisis—to focus on “crime and violence” and immigration enforcement. This inversion of priorities violates Pius XI’s condemnation of states that prioritize material concerns over divine law: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken” (Encyclical Quas Primas, §18). The bishops’ tepid response—focusing on “social trust” and “fraternity” while omitting Christ’s Kingship over nations—reinforces this naturalism.
Theological Bankruptcy of “Respectful” Pluralism
Kast’s claim that
“someone may have a different ideology, but he or she is a person just like us”
directly contradicts Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors, which condemns the idea that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error #15). By equating Communism—a materialist heresy condemned in 1846’s Qui pluribus—with legitimate political disagreement, Kast embraces the very indifferentism that enabled Chile’s decades-long secularist decay. The bishops’ call for “dialogue” with anti-Christian ideologies ignores Pius X’s warning in Pascendi that Modernism uses such language to corrode dogma.
State Supremacy Over Divine Law
Kast’s immigration policy exposes his statist conception of justice. By declaring that
“the state must enforce the law”
while relegating the Church to mere “welcoming, solidarity, and charity,” he denies the subordination of civil authority to Christ’s reign. This echoes the condemned error that “the Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” (Syllabus of Errors, #24). Archbishop Sergio Pérez de Arce’s weak rebuke—criticizing only the tone, not the principle, of mass deportations—mirrors the conciliar sect’s betrayal of migrants’ supernatural dignity. True Catholic leaders would demand policies aligned with Matthew 25:35 (“I was a stranger and you welcomed me”), not pagan nationalism.
Schönstatt’s Suspicious Influence
Kast’s affiliation with the Schönstatt movement—a post-1914 foundation lacking pre-1958 Magisterial approval—raises doctrinal concerns. Its focus on “practical spirituality” and alleged exaggerated Marian devotion risks syncretism, particularly given Schönstatt’s expansion during the conciliar revolution. The movement’s silence on Kast’s moral compromises (abortion sidelined, Communion for adulterers unchallenged) reveals its complicity with neo-modernism. As Pius X warned, such groups often “favor… the enemies of the Church” by substituting social activism for doctrinal clarity (Pascendi, §42).
Bishops’ Cowardice Confirms Apostasy
The Chilean episcopate’s statement—omitting Christ’s name entirely while praising “reason” and “solidarity”—embodies the conciliar sect’s apostasy. Their concern for “vulnerable people” absent reference to sanctifying grace or eternal salvation reduces the Church to a NGO. Nowhere do they demand Kast restore Catholic confessional state principles as taught by Pius IX: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” is condemned as Error #80. By entrusting Kast to Our Lady of Mount Carmel while ignoring her Fatima warnings against Communism—a false apparition, but one accurately predicting Russia’s errors—they complete their betrayal.
Source:
Chile elects conservative for president, defeating Communist Party opponent (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 15.12.2025