A relevant feastday

In the Catholic liturgy, today is the feast of Christ the King.

At first glance it might sound alientating. But there's more to it.

Pius Xl introduced the feast in 1925 in the aftermath of World War I. Maybe also conscious of the beginnings of the collapse of the Weimar Republic in Germany, fascism in Italy and the rise of communism in Russia.

Later in 1937 that same pope wrote the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge, on the church and the German Reich, condemning the myth of race and blood.

It might be well worth have a second look at the encyclical in our times.