Chile’s President-Elect Compromises Catholic Truth with Secular Pragmatism
EWTN News (December 27, 2025) profiles José Antonio Kast, Chile’s president-elect, as a “pro-life Catholic” who champions family values while employing secular arguments against abortion. The article praises Kast’s personal story – his parents’ rejection of contraceptive ideology leading to his birth – and his political battles against Chile’s abortion laws. While acknowledging Kast’s verbal opposition to gender ideology and abortion, the report reveals his systematic avoidance of Catholic doctrinal foundations in public discourse.
Naturalism Masquerading as Catholic Witness
Kast explicitly states: “Generally, I don’t use religious arguments to defend the pro-life stance, because there is ample evidence from the nature of human beings, from science”. This approach constitutes theological surrender, reducing the lex divina (divine law) to mere biological data. Pope Pius XI condemned such naturalism in Quas Primas, insisting Christ’s reign extends over “not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians” (1925). By privileging scientific arguments over the Church’s divine mandate to teach nations, Kast implicitly denies the regnum sociale Christi (social kingship of Christ).
Omission of Supernatural Finality in Marriage and Family
The article celebrates Kast’s nine children as fruits of “being open to life,” yet remains silent on the sacramental nature of marriage. This reduction of matrimony to natural companionship ignores the Council of Trent’s definitive teaching that marriage is a sacrament instituted by Christ “to signify the union of Christ and of the Church” (Session XXIV). Kast’s “dating Tuesdays” with his wife receive more emphasis than the grace of the sacrament – a symptomatic omission revealing the article’s naturalistic framing of family life.
“Two women can love each other. Two women can live together. Two women can work together. But two women by themselves cannot procreate. The same is true for two men.”
While factually accurate, this argument from reproductive capacity alone dangerously implies that sterile heterosexual unions share the same deficiency as homosexual partnerships. The Church’s condemnation of sodomy rests not on fertility statistics but on divine positive law: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22). Kast’s selective emphasis on natural law arguments while avoiding Scripture and Magisterium demonstrates the modernists’ tactic of “evolving” doctrine through omission.
Failure to Demand Catholic Social Order
Nowhere does Kast mention the duty of states to recognize Catholicism as the sole true religion, as demanded by Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864): “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Condemned Proposition 77). His lamentations about “leftist ideological imposition” ring hollow while he himself operates within the pluralist framework condemned by Leo XIII: “States must conform to the Church and model their laws upon divine and ecclesiastical law” (Immortale Dei, 1885).
Strategic Silence on Antichurch Collaboration
The article uncritically cites EWTN – a network that regularly platforms conciliar “bishops” and recognizes Vatican II antipopes. Kast’s willingness to be interviewed by this compromised entity suggests tacit acceptance of the conciliar sect’s authority. True Catholic statesmen would follow the example of St. Thomas More, who refused collaboration with heretical regimes even at cost of life – not merely protest abortion while accepting the broader revolutionary framework.
Youth Mobilization Without Catholic Formation
Kast’s hope that “young people who reverse the situation” ignores the conciliar sect’s destruction of Catholic education. Since Vatican II’s Gravissimum Educationis, Chile’s youth have been formed in schools that teach religious indifferentism. To expect societal renewal from generations catechized by modernists is like expecting dry trees to bear fruit. As Pope Pius X warned: “The destruction of the States will be the consequence of the destruction of the family” (Vehementer Nos, 1906) – yet Kast proposes no restoration of Catholic schooling.
Conclusion: Natural Virtue Insufficient for Social Order
Kast exemplifies the conservative error denounced by Archbishop Lefebvre: “They wish to ignore that the crisis is above all supernatural… They are content with a natural opposition” (Spiritual Journey, 1988). While opposing certain evils, his program remains a pis-aller (last resort) lacking the integral Catholicism required for true social restoration. Until leaders demand public allegiance to Christ the King and His Church – rejecting pluralism and Vatican II – their efforts will but rearrange deck chairs on modernity’s sinking ship.
Source:
Chile’s president-elect on the decision that changed his life forever (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.12.2025