“It is only when men live their lives within the correct perspective of the Creator-creature relationship that social and political harmony and order prevail. “The peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ.” When men repudiate this relationship, disharmony and disorder introduced for the first time by Lucifer, once the most magnificent of all God’s creatures, who overcome with pride, boasted: Non serviam – “I will not serve.” The Catechism teaches us that our purpose in life is to know, love, and serve God in this world so that we can be happy with Him forever in the next. We cannot claim to love God if we do not serve Him, and we cannot claim to serve God if we do not subject ourselves to the law of Christ the King. “If you love me,” He warned, “keep my commandments.” (John 14:15)” – Michael Treharne Davies, Vatican II and the Reign of Christ the King
This essay, God willing, will appear in the days between the latest round of “No Kings” protests in the United States and the approaching Feast of Christ the King (Traditional, 26 October).
I didn’t need to read LifeSite News headlines about George Soros’ fingerprints on these demonstrations, nor the countless analyses insisting that the real target isn’t Trump, to discern the truth: this movement is yet another blasphemous uprising of the demon-possessed, anti-Christ masses—another clenched fist raised against the Kingship of Jesus Christ. Its timing, landing just days before the great Feast of His Sovereignty, is no accident; it was conceived and coordinated in the very pits of hell.
That, of course, is the summary of every crisis afflicting mankind—personal or political, economic or ecclesial. Within that summary also lies the only true solution. Yet humanity has plunged so far down this infernal trajectory that most no longer possess the eyes to see it. The disciples of liberalism, modernism, wokeism, and every other counterfeit “ism,” have become, in St. Paul’s words, “vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened. For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:22). Their “understanding [is] darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts. Who despairing, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto the working of all uncleanness” (Ephesians 4:18–19).
While researching for this essay, I came across a hair-raising quotation from the 1992 Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey—a line that perfectly captures the spiritual derangement of our age. In their joint opinion, Justices O’Connor, Kennedy, and Souter declared: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.”
Oh, what blasphemous absurdity! What demonic delusion paraded as enlightenment! And yet, this poisonous creed—the deification of the self—has seeped into every corner of civilization, even into the sanctuary of the Church herself, or rather, her grotesque imitation: the Ape of the Church.
This statement is nothing new. It is merely a polished repetition of the ancient hiss of the Serpent in Eden: “Your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5). Every revolution against divine order, every ideology that enthrones man in the place of God, echoes that same satanic promise.
But as Catholics, we know—or ought to know—that such autonomy is an illusion. “You are not your own, for you are bought with a great price” (1 Corinthians 6:19–20). True liberty is found not in self-worship but in the joyful submission to Christ the King, who alone gives meaning to existence, to the universe, and to the mystery of human life.
But look around, and you will see that man has enthroned himself as god, that the anti-Christ system is in full and ghastly operation, and that the war against Christ the King is reaching its fevered crescendo.
Our age trumpets an endless litany of counterfeit “rights”: Human “rights,” Animal “rights,” LGBTQ “rights,” Environmental “rights,” Religious Freedom “rights”, the “right” to die, the “right” to slaughter the unborn, and the “right” to indulge every depraved fantasy that defies the law of God. Yet the true rights — the rights of God Himself, expressed in the first three Commandments — are mocked, trampled, and spat upon.
And in the end — in the only analysis that truly matters — God alone possesses rights, for all authority, all justice, and all order flow from Him.
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