Housing Crisis Weaponized to Obscure Rejection of Christ the King’s Rights
The National Catholic Register portal (July 27, 2026) publishes a report by Jonah McKeown framing the United States housing shortage as a “moral crisis” impeding family formation and parish life. The article profiles young Catholic families — such as Daniel Drain, director of the “Office of Life and Family” for the “Archdiocese of Philadelphia,” and the Lynch family in Chicago — who are priced out of homeownership near their workplaces and parishes. It cites “Pope Francis” (*Amoris Laetitia*) and antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) as authorities affirming a “right to housing,” alongside “Father Stephen Koeth” of the University of Notre Dame and Patrick Brown of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The piece applauds the bipartisan “21st Century ROAD to Housing Act,” supported by the “U.S. bishops,” which restricts corporate buyers and eases modular construction. The analysis remains entirely within the naturalistic order, treating housing as a technocratic policy problem rather than a symptom of the apostasy from the Social Kingship of Christ. This article epitomizes the neo-church’s reduction of the Gospel to a platform for secular social democracy, utterly silent on the rights of God and the necessity of the Catholic State.