Written in
1932, and just as pertinent today, Fr. Denis Fahey explains the doctrine of
Christ the King, and His rights in and over societies and nations, based upon
the teaching of the Church, and in particular the encyclical ‘Quas Primas’.
Scripture
tells us that “every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord.” Christ is not just King of Heaven, He is also King of the Earth, and
desires that man establish his societies and nations under His benign rule.
Church and
State are not different, but two aspects of the rule of Christ over the Earth,
the “Two Swords” in classic understanding. The State wields the sword for civil
society, but in order to be a just State, pleasing to God and blessed with
prosperity and peace, it must rule according to the will of Christ and not
according to the will of man.
Fr. Fahey
describes to us what this ideal State should look like, as it follows the
programme of Christ, as opposed to that of Satan and Organised Naturalism.
Paperback. 114pp.