WHERE IS CHRIST KING?

‘My kingdom is not of this world.’

Jesus Christ told Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world: ‘Regnum meum non est de hoc mundo’ (Jn. 18:36). A liberal reads these words as if he had said that Christ’s kingdom is exclusively supernatural, heavenly, never with natural and/or earthly dimensions. The argument is as repetitive as it is old. The tragedy lies in the fact that Catholics repeat it as their own.

What Christ said is not that his kingdom is not ‘here’; in several passages of the Gospels, it is said that he announced that the Kingdom of God had arrived, that it was among us. ‘World’ does not designate a place opposed to ‘heaven’ but rather the origin and root of his royal power. His words mean that his Kingdom does not originate in the world; that its beginning is not worldly nor founded on earthly powers, that it is not surrounded by worldly honors; but that it is divine and, being so, exercises power over all creation, even over the world.”  and on human life in its fullness.

Christ—it was said in the times of Christendom—affirmed that his kingdom was not of this world to refute Pilate, who believed him to be merely a man. Therefore, his words state that he is not king by human hand, and yet he is the king of the world. Such is the teaching of Conrad of Megenberg. This counterargument is classic: that it is not of this world means that it is not constituted in a human manner, because in this world (adds Augustine Trionfo) we have the vice of sin.

Nor did Our Lord say that, being heavenly, his Kingdom does not unfold on earth, in the world. Christ is not consecrating the "autonomy of the temporal," as is often said, for he immediately replies to Pilate that he would not have that power over him if it had not been given to him from on high. We can hardly say that Christ separated the supernatural from the natural and abandoned the human world to its own fate. In truth, Christ the King is an earthly monarch with a view to the homeland.  “The kingdom where Christ will reign eternally with his own,” Calderón Bouchet affirms, “is not of this world, but is incorporated into it. One of the essential conditions for the existence of the Christian city is that Christ rule and reign in it as ‘priest and king.’”

Juan Fernando Segovia, The Dogma of the Kingship of Christ. Quas primas, of Pius XI.

WHERE IS CHRIST KING?

“‘My kingdom is not of this world.’

Jesus Christ told Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world: ‘Regnum meum non est de hoc mundo’ (Jn. 18:36). A liberal reads these words as if he had said that Christ’s kingdom is exclusively supernatural, heavenly, never with natural and/or earthly dimensions. The argument is as repetitive as it is old. The tragedy lies in the fact that Catholics repeat it as their own.

What Christ said is not that his kingdom is not ‘here’; in several passages of the Gospels, it is said that he announced that the Kingdom of God had arrived, that it was among us. ‘World’ does not designate a place opposed to ‘heaven’ but rather the origin and root of his royal power. His words mean that his Kingdom does not originate in the world; that its beginning is not worldly nor founded on earthly powers, that it is not surrounded by worldly honors; but that it is divine and, being so, exercises power over all creation, even over the world.”  and on human life in its fullness.

Christ—it was said in the times of Christendom—affirmed that his kingdom was not of this world to refute Pilate, who believed him to be merely a man. Therefore, his words state that he is not king by human hand, and yet he is the king of the world. Such is the teaching of Conrad of Megenberg. This counterargument is classic: that it is not of this world means that it is not constituted in a human manner, because in this world (adds Augustine Trionfo) we have the vice of sin.

Nor did Our Lord say that, being heavenly, his Kingdom does not unfold on earth, in the world. Christ is not consecrating the "autonomy of the temporal," as is often said, for he immediately replies to Pilate that he would not have that power over him if it had not been given to him from on high. We can hardly say that Christ separated the supernatural from the natural and abandoned the human world to its own fate. In truth, Christ the King is an earthly monarch with a view to the homeland.  “The kingdom where Christ will reign eternally with his own,” Calderón Bouchet affirms, “is not of this world, but is incorporated into it. One of the essential conditions for the existence of the Christian city is that Christ rule and reign in it as ‘priest and king'.”

Juan Fernando Segovia, The Dogma of the Kingship of Christ. Quas primas, of Pius XI.

DEEDS, NOT WORDS.

By their fruits you will know them. This is the touchstone of true piety and true love for God. Deeds, deeds, not words. We speak much of our faith, of our submission to the Church, of the rigor with which we fulfill its precepts, of the sacred fire that burns in our hearts, and if we consider our deeds and the fruits of that faith and love for God we boast of, we find nothing but misery and sterility.

We live, then, in a clumsy and disheartening delusion. A faith without works is a dead faith. Lips alone are not enough to profess the faith; a heart is needed to desire it and a will to practice it. Devotion that does not translate into works of love for God and of help and sacrifice for our neighbor is false devotion, or at least useless. Jesus Christ says it clearly and definitively: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Who will enter the heavenly mansions? Jesus himself gives the answer: “Those who do the will of God.” And let us not forget that the Lord’s will signifies the commandments of God and his Church and the works of mercy. Furthermore, we will fulfill God’s pleasing will by observing, receiving, and loving all that happens to us here below, whether it comes from human beings or from the order of nature, as emanating from the ineffable, yet always paternal, designs of divine Providence.

THE APOSTOLATE OF THE PRESS.

Year 1897

IF YOU ARE PERSECUTED OR SLANDERED

“Be assured that if you patiently endure persecution, God will come to your defense, and if He allows you to be slandered in this world, it will be so that He may reward your patience in the next life with incomparably greater honor.”

San Alfonso María de Ligorio, “El que quiera venir conmigo”, Ed. Apostolado Mariano.

SAINT TERESA OF JESUS DIXIT

TODAY, MODERNISM UPHOLDS THIS ERROR AGAINST THE FAITH, WHICH POPE GREGORY XVI DENOUNCED.

Pope Gregory XVI:

“Another cause that has produced many of the evils that afflict the Church is indifferentism, that is, that perverse theory spread everywhere, thanks to the deceptions of the impious, which teaches that eternal life can be obtained in any religion, provided there is rectitude and honesty in one’s conduct.”  [...] If the Apostle says that there is one God, one faith, one baptism, then let those who think that salvation can be found everywhere understand that, according to the Savior's judgment, they are against Christ, for they are not with Christ, and those who do not gather with Christ scatter miserably. Therefore, it is certain that those who do not have the Catholic faith and do not keep it whole and undefiled will perish eternally.

(Encyclical Mirari vos, no. 9, August 15, 1832)

THE CAUSE OF THE WORST CRISIS THE CHURCH HAS EVER FACED

His Holiness Pius IX warned:

“Catholic liberalism is one foot in truth and one foot in error; one foot in the Church and one foot in the world, one foot with me and one foot with my enemies… What afflicts your country and prevents it from deserving the blessings of Heaven is the confusion of principles. I will speak the word and I will not remain silent: what I fear most for you is not those wretches of the Commune, veritable demons escaped from hell, but Catholic liberalism, that fatal system that always dreams of reconciling two impossible things: the Church and the Revolution. I have already condemned it, but I would condemn it forty times more if necessary. Yes, I say it again because of the love I have for you; yes, this balancing act is what can end up destroying religion among you.”

(Pope Pius IX, Address to the Catholics of France, June 18, 1871).

Saint Pius X also pointed out this great danger:

"Liberal Catholics are wolves in sheep's clothing. And for this reason, the priest, the true priest, must reveal to the people entrusted to his care their dangerous snares and their evil aims."

(Saint Pius X, Address of September 5, 1894, as Cardinal).

We now quote an interview given by Cardinal Ratzinger to Vittorio Messori in November 1984. Regarding the challenges facing the Church at Vatican II, he said:

"The problem of the 1960s was that of acquiring the best values ​​resulting from two centuries of 'liberal' culture. In fact, these are values ​​that, although born outside the Church, can find their place, purified and corrected, in its worldview. That is what has been done."

This clearly shows the strong influence of liberalism and modernism within the Church in the 1960s (and long before); of wheat already influenced and contaminated by the tares. It is the nefarious influence of Maritain. That quote negates the radical condemnation of the papal magisterium of ALL liberalism.

The Commonitorium of St. Vincent of Lérins (a Father of the Church) teaches:

"It belongs to Catholics to preserve the deposit of the holy Fathers, to condemn impious novelties, and, as the Apostle has said time and again, to pronounce anathema (condemnation) upon anyone who proclaims a doctrine different from that received (Gal. 1:9). From this it follows that every Catholic who desires to prove that he is a legitimate son of our Mother the Church must adhere to the holy Faith of our Fathers, cling to it, and die for it. He must also detest impious novelties, hate them, combat them, and persecute them."

The First Vatican Council made it clear that the Magisterium's role is not to innovate, purify, or Christianize the errors of the world, but to preserve and explain the faith received:

“The Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter so that they might teach new doctrines, but so that they might religiously guard and faithfully expound the revelation handed down by the Apostles.”

Is it clear what the core and cause of the errors that are currently growing like weeds within the Church and causing the worst crisis in its history are?

But the time will come when the Lord will separate the weeds from the wheat, so we must remain faithful to the true faith and to the Catholic Church He founded.

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