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Pope Pius XI promulgated Quas Primas in 1925, restoring the ancient confession that Christ reigns over societies as well as souls. The encyclical named the modern political project that stripped public life of divine authority and reduced the Church to one voice among many.
The same spirit now advances through documents such as Dignitatis Humanae, which elevated individual conscience above the duty of nations to confess Christ. This shift repeats the error of the post-Reformation settlements that handed sovereignty to the secular state and left the altar without public honor.
Christ's kingship is no private sentiment. Scripture declares that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, and the undivided Church has always understood this confession to bind rulers as well as subjects.
The City of Man builds its towers by denying any higher throne. It offers religious liberty as a substitute for religious obedience, thereby enthroning man where God alone must rule.
Western Christendom once ordered its laws and customs under the social kingship announced at Nicea and defended by the great councils. The present abandonment of that order traces directly to the moment when states claimed autonomy from the King of kings.
The Faithful Remnant must therefore reject every theory that treats Christ's dominion as optional for public life. Households, parishes, and nations recover their proper form only when they acknowledge the one Lord whose silence before Pilate was not surrender but the calm of sovereign judgment.
Those who continue to celebrate the modern separation of throne and altar serve the Dispossessor, not the Church of the ages. The call is to restore the public confession that every commonwealth owes its allegiance to Christ the King.
