This year’s Feast of Christ the King marks the 100th Anniversary of the institution of this liturgical feast by Pope Pius XI during the Jubilee Year of 1925. The purpose of the feast was to draw attention to the Social Kingship of Christ and to re-assert it against the modernist errors which were seeking to push religious life out of the business of human society and relegate it to the purely private spiritual domain. This situation has only gotten worse over the last century.  In his Encyclical Quas primas explaining the purpose of a new feast of Christ the King, Pope Pius XI wrote: To repair the crime of lesedivinity, which denies God’s rights over the human society whose Author He is, we must exalt Jesus Christ as King over all individuals, families, and peoples. If His universal royalty be proclaimed and His reign in society recognized, one of the principal evils of the modern world—the secularizing of public and private life—will be attacked at its roots.