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Feast of Christ the KingIn honor of the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, which we celebrate most solemnly today, we offer readers the following excerpts from Pope Pius XI’s magnificent Encyclical Quas Primas (Dec. 11, 1925) by which he instituted “the Feast of the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ to be observed yearly throughout the whole world on the last Sunday of the month of October — the Sunday, that is, which immediately precedes the Feast of All Saints” (n. 28).Sacred Heart of Jesus, may Thy Kingdom come! Immaculate Heart of Mary, may thy triumph come!*****Venerable Brethren, Greeting...

Christendom Is the Solution for the Emptiness of our Nihilistic Society Grave moral problems are tearing the country apart. For many, this is apparent in the form of broken homes, procured abortion, shattered communities and lost Faith. Many people get it right when pointing out the problems. However, they get it wrong when looking for solutions. Some get it wrong because they look for solutions that address symptoms, not causes. Others search for a way out that involves the least possible effort. In these politically correct times, people are told not to offend anyone by their proposals. Thus, they automatically...

Pope John Paul II wonders in his new autobiography whether he has been too soft on Church dissidents. There is no need for anyone, including the Holy Father, to wonder about his governance of the Church in the past twenty-six years. It has been deplorably weak, yielding more and more ground to curial cardinals and national episcopal conferences and local ordinaries in the midst of an unprecedented revolution against almost everything contained in the Deposit of Faith and expressed so beautifully and perfectly in the Immemorial Mass of Tradition. No, the problems of the pontificate of Pope John Paul II...

On 11 December 1925, Pope Pius XI promulgated his encyclical letter Quas primas, on the Kingship of Christ. The encyclical dealt with what the Pope described correctly as "the chief cause of the difficulties under which mankind was laboring." He explained that the manifold evils in the world are due to the fact that the majority of men have thrust Jesus Christ and His holy law out of their lives; that Our Lord and His holy law have no place either in private life or in politics; and, as long as individuals and states refuse to submit to the rule...