By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing - This year marks the centennial of the institution of the Solemnity of Christ the King. Pope Pius XI published the encyclical Quas primas on December 11, 1925, which sketched the theology and announced the new feast of the “Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ.”... Contrary to this year’s protest rhetoric, America does have a king. All men have a king, because the Kingdom of God encompasses all men. As the Preface for the feast observes, Christ presents to His Father “an eternal and universal kingdom.”... The claims of Christ’s Kingship might seem to most people today inflated, even triumphalist. They are an offense to a modernity that makes its peace with secularism ....