Chile’s President-Elect: A Naturalistic Mirage Against Catholic Order
The Catholic News Agency portal (December 27, 2025) presents José Antonio Kast as a defender of life and family, emphasizing his personal story of familial survival through parental courage and his political opposition to abortion and gender ideology. While superficially aligned with Catholic morality on certain points, this portrayal dangerously ignores the absolutist demands of Catholic social doctrine concerning the Social Reign of Christ the King (Pius XI, Quas Primas).
Naturalistic Foundations of Kast’s “Pro-Life” Stance
The article celebrates Kast’s biological arguments against abortion:
“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 reduction of life’s sacredness to mere natural law constitutes theological bankruptcy. Quas Primas demands that all temporal authority recognize its derivation from Christ’s authority: “Rulers of nations would not neglect the public duty of reverence and obedience to the reign of Christ if they remember that it is from Him they derive their authority” (§19). By avoiding religious arguments, Kast implicitly endorses the conciliar sect’s error of religious indifferentism condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Proposition 15, 21).
Silence on the Catholic State as Divine Mandate
Nowhere does Kast mention the duty of rulers to establish Catholicism as the state religion – a non-negotiable principle reaffirmed by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55 condemned). His opposition to abortion and gender ideology remains trapped within the modernist framework of “human rights” rather than recognizing God’s exclusive legislative authority over nations. As Quas Primas warns: “Nations will be happy when both citizens and governments submit to the empire of Christ” (§11).
The Family Defense Scandal
Kast correctly states that “two women cannot procreate,” but reduces marriage to biological function rather than its sacramental nature. Pius XI’s Casti Connubii defines marriage as “a sacrament by which the union of man and woman is endowed with a sacred character” (§6) – a supernatural reality Kast ignores. His “dating Tuesdays” trivializes the indissoluble bond’s sacramental gravity into therapeutic technique.
Omission of Apostate Collaborations
The article fails to investigate Kast’s engagement with Chile’s conciliar sect structures. Any political leader claiming Catholic allegiance must reject communion with modernist “bishops” who promulgate heresies like religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae). St. Robert Bellarmine teaches that “manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction” (De Romano Pontifice II.30). Kast’s silence on this constitutes implicit acceptance of conciliar apostasy.
False Hope in Political Processes
Kast’s claim that “young people will reverse the situation” ignores Catholicism’s teaching on the total depravity of secular politics. Pius IX’s Quanta Cura condemns the “insanity that the people’s will is the supreme law independent of divine and human rights.” Without explicit submission to Christ the King, Kast’s “anti-leftism” remains naturalistic rebellion against one error while embracing another – the fundamental error of secular state legitimacy.
Conclusion: The Antichurch’s Useful Idol
José Antonio Kast functions as the conciliar sect’s perfect useful idiot – deploying Catholic-sounding rhetoric while accepting the revolutionary premise of religiously neutral governance. As St. Pius X warned: “The great error of our age is the separation of civil society from religion” (Vehementer Nos §3). Until Kast publicly demands Chile’s submission to the Social Kingship of Christ and repudiates communion with modernist heretics, his “pro-life” stance remains satanic deception wrapped in natural virtue.
Source:
Chile’s president-elect on the decision that changed his life forever (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 27.12.2025