Pentagon’s Chaplain Corps “Reform” Masks Deeper Secularist Agenda
The Catholic News Agency portal reports (December 17, 2025) that U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced reforms to the military’s Chaplain Corps, beginning with eliminating the Army’s current Spiritual Fitness Guide. Hegseth decried the “weakening of our Chaplain corps” in an “atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism,” claiming chaplains had been reduced to therapists rather than ministers. He invoked George Washington’s establishment of the Chaplain Corps and promised to restore chaplains as “moral anchors” by removing materials promoting “New Age notions” and “secular humanism,” quoting a 1956 army chaplain’s manual describing chaplains as “shepherds of souls.” This purported reform demonstrates the terminal confusion of a state apparatus attempting to co-opt religious language while systematically denying Regnum Christi (the Kingship of Christ).









