Colombia’s New President-Elect and the Empty Rhetoric of “Christ the King”
EWTN News portal reports that Abelardo de la Espriella has been elected president of Colombia by a slim margin, pledging to be the president of all Colombians and concluding his victory speech with the cry, “Long live Christ the King!” While this public declaration is a welcome contrast to the secularist silence of most modern politicians, a rigorous examination of the political, social, and theological landscape reveals that such slogans, unmoored from the integral social reign of Christ the King as defined by Catholic doctrine, risk becoming hollow instruments of a “Catholicism-lite” that is powerless to reverse the tide of apostasy.

