Chile’s President-Elect On the Decision That Changed His Life Forever

With his wife, María Pía Adriasola, he has nine children, born from the conviction of 'being open to life.'

José Antonio Kast (photo: Goya Productions)

Julieta Villar/CNA/Aci PrensaWorldDecember 27, 2025

In an exclusive 2024 interview with Goya Producciones for the documentary    Valientes(Brave Ones), the now president-elect of Chile, José Antonio Kast, addressed topics such as defending life, his family history, and the problem of leftist ideological imposition on society.

Discussing both his personal background and political career, Kast asserted that young people “have the power to bring about change” and put an end to individualistic societies that lead to loneliness.

The decision that allowed him to be born

A staunch defender of life from conception, Kast — the youngest of 10 siblings — shared a “very important” personal story that shaped his family’s future: “When my mother had her second child, she suffered from eclampsia [a serious pregnancy complication], and they raised the possibility that she wouldn’t be able to have any more children,” he recounted.

His father believed that wasn’t right, and despite the risk to his wife’s life, he told her: “I believe God doesn’t want that for us.” That determination allowed them to have eight more children, including Kast. Without that decision, “I wouldn’t have been born,” he noted.

“My parents are German immigrants, and we have an extended family of almost 200 people. My mother’s first two children passed away. Therefore, none of this would have been possible, and that leaves a lasting impression on you from a young age,” he emphasized.

More: https://www.ncregister.com/cna/chile-s-president-elect-on-the-decision-that-changed-his-life-forever

“ When a priest is unjustly accused of a serious sin, he faces destructive isolation.”

“A very important article about a topic too little considered.” (Recommended by @DrKwasniewski on Twitter/X.)

From the article:

“«Being falsely accused of grave moral offenses can be just as painful for priests as the experience of wrongful imprisonment. A 2022 survey of priests by the Catholic University of America reports that a “large majority – 82% – said they regularly fear false allegations.” This statistic underscores the substantial distress such accusations can generate, affecting priests’ mental health and overall well-being. Additionally, the anxiety surrounding this potential fate may deter individuals from pursuing the priesthood.

“When a priest is unjustly accused of a serious sin, he faces destructive isolation. His lay support system may “ghost” him thinking he is guilty or out of fear of being suspected of cover-up for supporting him. The absence of laypeople to turn to is challenging, but it can be especially crushing if his fellow clergy distance themselves or shun him. This abandonment can intensify his emotional scars and lead to a crisis of spiritual fatherhood, especially when his superiors feel unable to defend or reinstate him—even after his innocence is established—due in part to financial and legal constraints.»”

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/false-accusations-of-abuse-harm-real-victims-innocent-priests/

Persecuted Convert Warns: Vatican Silence on Islam Driving Europe Toward “Self-Annihilation”

 

If the Vicar of Christ does not speak out against the persecution of Christians, who on earth still can?” 

DIANE MONTAGNA

DEC 26, 2025

(Sabatina James / Pope Leo XIV, Photo: CBCP News)

ROME, 26 December 2025 — A Muslim-born Catholic convert living in exile in the U.S. is warning that the Vatican’s approach to Islam is putting Christians worldwide at risk. She is also urging Pope Leo XIV to take stronger action against their persecution.

Sabatina James, an Austrian‑Pakistani humanitarian and author of the new memoir The Price of Love: The Fate of a Woman and a Warning to the West, fled Germany in 2015 amid ongoing death threats for apostasy and her outspoken criticism of forced marriage.

Born into a devout Muslim family in Pakistan, after moving to Austria with her family, she converted from Islam to Catholicism and has devoted her life to freeing Christian slaves, protecting orphans, and rescuing women and girls from forced marriage and honor-based violence.

In this in-depth interview, she contends that European leaders are steering the continent toward “self-annihilation” and argues that the Catholic Church has abetted this trajectory by emphasizing “mercy” toward refugees, failing to confront the realities of Islam, and neglecting to preach and uphold the faith that shaped European culture. She further warns that the same fate could reach the United States if its leaders do not heed these warnings.

Indiscriminately accepting Muslims while ignoring violent Islamism is “indefensible,” James says. “A public correction of these misguided attitudes is urgently needed, and it needs to come from the Catholic Church.” Failure to do so, she says, makes its leaders “complicit in Islamist violence.”

Recalling Benedict XVI’s apology to the Muslim world following backlash to his 2006 Regensburg address, she contends that Pope Francis “sacrificed the persecuted on the altar of interreligious dialogue” and that Pope Leo XIV has, in the first months of his pontificate, effectively implied that the Christian world ought to “accept or ignore abuses” being perpetrated by Islamists across Europe.

“If the Vicar of Christ does not speak out against the persecution of Christians, then who on earth still can?” she asks, and calls on the new pontiff to step up to support and defend the persecuted.

More: https://x.com/dianemontagna/status/2004566944251351267?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

BREAKING: The “Deposit of Faith” is BACK

 … not that it ever really went away.

From Leo XIV’s catechesis delivered at today’s general audience in Rome:

“The apostle Paul repeatedly exhorts his disciple and collaborator Timothy: “O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you” (1Tm ; cf. 2Tm1:12-14). The dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum echoes this Pauline text when it says: “Sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture form one sacred deposit of the word of God, committed to the Church”, interpreted by the “living teaching office of the Church, whose authority is exercised in the name of Jesus Christ” (no. 10). “Deposit” is a term that, in its original meaning, is juridical in nature and imposes on the depositary the duty to preserve the content, which in this case is the faith, and to transmit it intact.

“The “deposit” of the Word of God is still in the hands of the Church and all of us, in our various ecclesial ministries, must continue to preserve it in its integrity, as a lodestar for our journey through the complexity of history and existence.”

N. B. Preserve the entire deposit of faith in its integrity!

Full text: https://www.osvnews.com/full-text-pope-leo-xivs-jan-28-2026-general-audience/

How Big Pharma sells more meds?

Medical "normal ranges" manipulation:

1985: Fasting glucose over 140 mg/dL = diabetic

2003: Lowered to 126 mg/dL

Suddenly 2 million more diabetics

1985: Blood pressure over 160/100 = hypertension

2017: Lowered to 130/80

Suddenly 30 million more "patients"

1985: Cholesterol over 280 = concern

2004: Lowered to 200

Suddenly everyone needs statins

They're not discovering disease. They're manufacturing patients by moving goalposts.

Lower the threshold, expand the market, sell more drugs.

Source: @SamaHoole on Twitter/X

Bishop Taylor urges Catholics to resist division

 Bishop Anthony B. Taylor

 January 26, 2026

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Bishop Anthony B. Taylor

Bishop Anthony B. Taylor issued this statement Jan. 24 on polarization and partisanship in today’s world.

My grandfather lost 20 first cousins in the Holocaust, and so I admittedly tend to view troubling things in today’s world through the lens of 1930s Germany. 

Lest anyone dismiss the remainder of my statement as hyperbolic, I want to be clear that the current times are not identical, and Trump is no Hitler. But the moral decline of our country is real. And we are doomed to repeat failures of the past if we are not willing to remember them and learn from them. Polarization and partisanship are poisoning the social fabric of our country. In this, there are many obvious parallels with the 1930s, and that should give us pause. 

In Hitler, Germany had an eloquent speaker who was able to tap into the understandable fears and anger of people in the wake of the country’s catastrophic losses in World War I and the financial meltdown at the end of the 1920s. These people longed for their beloved homeland to be great once again, and many disaffected people resonated with Hitler’s talk of “real” Germans, the Aryan race, and his mockery and demonization of those who were different racially or religiously or didn’t share his views. 

In the 1930s, Germany’s democracy was still young, its checks and balances insufficient, and its politicians too quick to go along with whatever direction the leadership pushed for — without critical thought or pushback. Those political opponents who did dare to oppose Hitler were silenced, initially through intimidation and threats, and eventually by being shipped off to Dachau and other concentration camps. 

The first Nazi concentration camp was for political opponents and other leaders in society, and it especially targeted those who resisted Hitler’s agenda. Fear of arrest and fear of Hitler’s thugs — the SA or “Brownshirts” — silenced many who disagreed privately with the direction their society was headed. In that decade, German society moved away from respect for human dignity, peace and moral restraint. 

I fear that the same dynamics are now happening in our country with the decline of civil discourse.

More: https://x.com/dcosacchi/status/2015926824971198611?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

Catholic scholar warns Pope Leo’s abortion remarks echo Francis-era moral confusion

 Prof. John Rao says the Pope’s comments on abortion, immigrants, and the death penalty blur moral lines and risk continuing the ambiguities that plagued the Church under Pope Francis.

The newly elected Pontiff, Pope Leo XIV is seen for the first time from the Vatican balcony on May 8, 2025

Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

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Maike Hickson

(LifeSiteNews) — Professor John Rao, the Chairman of the traditional Catholic Roman Forum and a retired professor of history of St. John’s University in New York City, recently gave LifeSiteNews an interview in Kansas City about the beginning of the new pontificate of Leo XIV and his recent September 30 comments regarding the issue of abortion.

Pope Leo had declined to comment on the fact that Cardinal Blase Cupich had expressed his intention to give an award to pro-abortion Senator Dick Durbin, claiming that he did not know many details of the case and adding that one has to look “at the overall work that a senator has done during … 40 years of service in the United States Senate.”

The Roman Pontiff then stated that “someone who says I’m against abortion but says I’m in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life,” additionally asserting that “someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”

Professor Rao, whose Roman Forum is “dedicated to the broad defense of Catholic doctrine and Catholic culture,” and who has been for decades an outspoken critic of Modernism within the Catholic Church, showed himself “puzzled” and “troubled” by these papal remarks. “Inhuman treatment” of immigrants is not something one would be in favor of; on the contrary, it was “inhuman” to let so many immigrants into the country, especially in light of the fact that so many of the immigrant children get lost and abducted. In Rao’s view, the Pope should be “more nuanced” in his comments. But, as if to further support Cardinal Cupich – who caused so much indignation within Catholic circles with his intention to honor Durbin that the senator had to decline the award – the Pope made him two weeks later, on October 15, a member of the governing council of Vatican City.

Speaking to LifeSiteNews on October 19 in Kansas City, where he had just given a talk at the Angelus Press Conference, Rao said that he was on his way to the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage in Rome. He was “extremely grateful” that Cardinal Raymond Burke was given permission to celebrate a Pontifical High Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica. The professor added that his first impression of the new Pope after the conclave in May was “very, very encouraging,” and that he hopes for a “change of direction,” for a “different pontificate than that of Pope Francis.” In his eyes, a “change of direction” is “absolutely necessary.”

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/catholic-scholar-warns-pope-leos-abortion-remarks-echo-francis-era-moral-confusion/