Did You Know? (Sunday, November 22, 2020)

The Feast of Christ the King was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 in which there was a rise in secularism, and people increasingly lived their lives as if God did not exist. Pope Pius XI felt that a feast celebrating the kingship of Christ over all humanity would be especially appropriate … [since it would enable] nations to see that the Church has the right to freedom, and immunity from the state; that leaders and nations would see that they are bound to give respect to Christ, and that the faithful would gain strength and courage from the celebration of the feast… [because] Christ must reign in our hearts, minds, wills and bodies.

(Enchiridion of Indulgences, 1968)