The Hollow Kingship: Modernist Subversion of Christ’s Social Reign
VaticanNews portal (November 22, 2025) presents an article titled “Lord’s Day Reflection: The Kingship we still need” by “Abbot” Marion Nguyen, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas instituting the Feast of Christ the King. The text superficially acknowledges Christ’s kingship while gutting its doctrinal substance, reducing it to a nebulous “conquest of the human heart” detached from the Regnum Christi (Kingdom of Christ) as defined by pre-conciliar Magisterium.
Eviscerating the Social Kingship of Christ
The article admits Pius XI instituted the feast against “secularism, nationalism, and atheism” but deliberately omits the encyclical’s uncompromising demand for the public submission of all nations to Christ’s authority. Pius XI condemned the “plague of laicism” that “denied Christ’s authority over nations” and declared: “Nations must be reminded that not only private persons but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (Quas Primas, §18-20). In stark contrast, “Abbot” Nguyen reduces Christ’s kingship to a privatized ethic of “self-giving love,” ignoring the Church’s infallible teaching that:
“The empire of our Redeemer embraces all men. […] It would be a grave error […] to say that Christ has no authority whatever in civil affairs” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, §17).
This omission exposes the conciliar sect’s core heresy: the denial of Christ’s right to reign over societies, condemned by Pius IX as the error that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Syllabus of Errors, §55).
Naturalizing Supernatural Order
Nguyen’s claim that secularism “promises liberation” while Christ offers “the conquest of the human heart” inverts Catholic soteriology. The article presents a purely horizontal “kingdom” devoid of:
– The necessity of the Sacraments for salvation (John 3:5, Council of Trent Sess. VII)
– The Social Reign of Christ the King as the foundation of temporal order
– The Last Things (Death, Judgment, Hell, Heaven) as the ultimate horizon of human existence
This naturalized “kingship” aligns with Modernist immanentism condemned by St. Pius X: “Modernists […] envisage religion as a kind of sentiment […] which wells up from the subconscious” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, §14). Nowhere does Nguyen mention the submission of intellect and will to divine revelation demanded by authentic faith (Vatican I, Dei Filius, Ch. 3).
The False Mercy of Apostate Clerics
The article’s emphasis on “mercy” toward “the broken, the forgotten, and the guilty” deliberately obscures the necessity of repentance for receiving grace. Christ pardoned the thief on the cross only after his public confession: “We indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds” (Luke 23:41). Nowhere does Nguyen warn that the conciliar sect’s “mercy” without conversion—epitomized by “Pope” Bergoglio’s Amoris Laetitia—constitutes soul-damning presumption.
Silence on Masonic Infiltration
Pius XI established the feast precisely to combat the Masonic plan to “dechristianize society” (Quas Primas, §24). Yet Nguyen remains silent on how the conciliar sect:
– Abolished the Oath Against Modernism (1910)
– Removed condemnations of Freemasonry from the 1983 “Code of Canon Law”
– Embraced UN sustainable development goals replacing the Kingship of Christ
This aligns with the Masonic strategy exposed in Alta Vendita documents: “The Pope […] will march under the banner of the [Masonic] democratic and social Republic.”
Conclusion: A Counterfeit Kingship
The article concludes with the blasphemous equivocation: “To proclaim Christ as King is to let His way reshape our worldview.” This reduces the Regnum Christi to subjective opinion, denying Pius XI’s teaching that Christ’s kingship imposes objective obligations on all men and nations. The true Feast of Christ the King remains only where the Immemorial Mass is offered and the integral Faith professed—outside the Vatican’s occupied structures. As Pope St. Pius X warned: “The true friends of the people […] do not revere Christ in the State” (Notre Charge Apostolique, 1910).
Source:
Lord’s Day Reflection: The Kingship we still need (vaticannews.va)
Date: 22.11.2025