By Ryan McMaken
Mises.org
January 2, 2026
December 2025 marks the centennial of Pope Pius XI's 1925 encyclical Quas Primas, which established the feast of Christ the King. Today, this feast is often commemorated by your average, milquetoast clergyman through calls to metaphorically embrace Jesus Christ as king and to have him "reign in our hearts."
That sort of thing has its place, but it is clear, when we actually read Pius XI's document, that Pius intended something far more political than the strictly spiritual interpretation that many give it today.