How the Vatican Celebrates 100 Years Since Pope Pius XI’s Encyclical Quas Primas on Christ the King

Novus Ordo Watch takes a look…

How the Vatican Celebrates 100 Years Since Pope Pius XI’s Encyclical Quas Primas on Christ the King

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Encyclical Quas Primas, issued by Pope Pius XI (r. 1922-1939) on Dec. 11, 1925. This magisterial document establishes the annual liturgical feast of Christ the King, to be celebrated on the last Sunday in October, and it sets forth the doctrine regarding Our Lord’s reign over every aspect of our lives and the duty of all individuals, families, societies, and nations to acknowledge Him as King and subject themselves to the sweet yoke of His Law.

Considering that the Vatican likes to commemorate significant anniversaries of documents — such as 50 years of John XXIII’s Pacem in Terris on world peace, 25 years of Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio on the development of peoples, and three, five, and ten years of Francis’ Laudato Si’ on the environment — surely the festivities for 100 years of Quas Primas on our Redeemer King must be grand!

In the following 3-minute video (direct link here), we take a look to see what’s going on…

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And there have you it: CRICKETS.

How come? In a nutshell, since the false Second Vatican Council, the Catholic teaching on the Social Kingship of Christ has been effectively repudiated, for it is a great obstacle in the path of ecumenism and interreligious dialogue. At Vatican II, Our Lord’s Social Kingship was replaced with the false doctrine of religious freedom, something eminently acceptable to unbelievers (but detestable to Christ the King and condemned by pre-Vatican II Church teaching): “We will not have this man to reign over us” (Lk 19:14).

While the Vatican II Church has retained an annual feast (now on the last Sunday of the liturgical year) known as ‘Christ the King’, our Blessed Lord’s Social Kingship has been effectively gutted from it.

By the way: September 8, 2007, marked the 100th anniversary of Pope St. Pius X’s landmark encyclical against the errors of the Modernists, Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The Vatican under ‘Pope’ Benedict XVI was deafeningly silent. August 20, 2014, marked the 100th anniversary of the holy death of St. Pius X. The ever-talkative ‘Pope’ Francis, who absurdly claimed to have a devotion to Saint Pius, had no time to honor the canonized Pope with even one syllable. He was too busy meeting with soccer players from Argentina.

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