Christ the King

Originally published by: LA ESPERANZA October 18, 2021 18. The feast of Christ the King, Pius XI hoped, would be the medicine for the ills of our century. Therefore, he placed it at the end […]

Originally published by: LA ESPERANZA October 17, 2021 17. Communitarians and hierocrats forget that the human good cannot be achieved without the political good, without the political community; that this good cannot be achieved by […]

Originally published by: LA ESPERANZA October 16, 2021 16. All the causes of the political community concur to this conclusion. Royaly of politics by order of efficient and formal causes, because all power comes from […]

Originally published by: LA ESPERANZA October 15, 2021 15. To these doctrines it is necessary to impute, first, a serious metaphysical error: the political community corresponds to the nature of man, it is not an […]

Originally published by: LA ESPERANZA October 14, 2021 14. I would like to insist on this point. Hierocracy and communitarianism are clerical forms that condition the kingship of Jesus Christ. In hierocracy, because Christ is […]

Originally published by: LA ESPERANZA October 13, 2021 13. In the political doctrine of the Church there is no place for hierocracy, for priestly government. Analogies or metaphors (the sun and the moon, the soul […]

Originally published by: LA ESPERANZA October 12, 2021 12. There are two very Catholic analogies that say: the temporal king (every civil ruler) is a minister of Christ the King (De Regimine Principum, I, 8: […]

Originally published by: LA ESPERANZA October 11, 2021 11. Governing through men –second causes–, Christ governs temporal things, and governs them all, whether they are private or individual, whether public, social or political; the same […]

Originally published by: LA ESPERANZA October 10, 2021 10. We know that God governs each thing according to the nature that He Himself has given it when creating it, and He has made us men […]