By Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, OnePeterFive, October 29, 2021
Convert from Lutheranism, ordained to the priesthood in 1991 by St. John Paul II in Rome for the Suburbicarian Diocese of Velletri-Segni. Classics at University of Minnesota. Licence and Doctoral studies in Patristic Theology at the Augustinianum in Rome. …
The royal families of Europe were falling one by one. Secularist atheistic materialism was on the rise. In the wake of the gory First World War Pope Pius XI looked out over the world and, in 1922, issued an encyclical letter Ubi arcano which directed people to the “Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ.” In 1925 he established the Feast of Christ the King with his encyclical Quas primas, fixing it on the last Sunday of a month that Communists coopted for the exaltation of their permanent revolution, October.
In a diabolically ironic twist, the term of art “permanent revolution” was penned in 1844 by Karl Marx in a work called The Holy Family. The Devil always tells you what he is doing. …