p/c Eric Daugherty.
Why are Protestants chanting “Christ Is King” while Catholic bishops promote Black Lives Matter? Shouldn’t it be the opposite?
St. Thomas Aquinas once wrote “Grace builds on nature without destroying it.” Similarly, we could say that Divine Revelation is built on the Natural Law without destroying it. When St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that, he never would have guessed large populations of so-called Catholics would be one day rejecting the bare-bones basics of the Natural Law like “Unborn children deserve to live” and “Marriage is between only one man and one woman” and “It is bad to mutilate your children, even if they have mental disorders.”
This is why liberal Catholics aren’t actually Catholic. That’s not me being mean or looking for click-bait. You see, to be Catholic means your whole life is founded on the Divine Revelation. But if you reject the Natural Law, you can live neither the Natural Law nor Divine Revelation. You are literally worse than a pagan. And it’s your own decision, not double-predestination.
How do I know liberal Catholics reject the Natural Law? It’s not because they reject the Traditional Latin Mass (even though they certainly do.) It’s because they reject the law written on everyone’s heart (Rom 1) in allowing for abortion or for “same-sex marriage” or anything else that most pagan societies found atrocious. Notice again that even most pagan societies found these practices atrocious, not to mention the better days of Christendom that wouldn’t even entertain these abominations.
Charlie Kirk accepted the Natural Law and the Divine Revelation. He was getting deeper-and-deeper into Divine Revelation to the point that his friend Candace Owens recently stated: “I can tell you factually: Charlie was praying the Rosary. Charlie was going to Mass.” It turns out, millions of conservative Christians across the globe have come to the same conclusion as Charlie Kirk on hundreds of issues. It’s a sad day when evangelical Protestants believe more of the Bible than liberal Catholics. But that’s where we are.
The picture at the top of this article reveals three million people marching in support of Charlie Kirk in London last week. First of all, I have to ask: Who knew there were three million conservative Christians in southern England in the first place? I was in London last year and it seemed like mostly atheists and Muslims. But the Christians came out in droves after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. They also marched in support of him in huge numbers all over the globe from Seoul to Sydney.
Actually, they weren’t really marching for Charlie Kirk as much as Christ. They chanted “Christ Is King” as one can hear in London on this video. The millions walking through the streets of many of the largest cities in the world were a mix of conservative Protestants, Catholics and Eastern Orthodox. The Eastern Orthodox could be seen holding up their Eastern Icons through the streets of London. They marched for Christ. They also marched for Charlie. They spoke up against illegal-immigration. They even exposed the fact Western nations have ironically become racist against whites.
Now, you all know I am the last priest in the world to promote false-ecumenism. I am the last priest in the world to say “Dogma doesn’t matter as long as we all believe in Jesus.” But even we traditionalists must observe this change in extremely recent history: Protestants are now chanting “Christ is King” when it was traditionally a Catholic phrase to chant it. And we Catholics still do, of course: In London (with the other Christians); In St. Louis when BLM or Antifa tried to destroy Catholic statues; In Chartres on the pilgrimage with thousands of young people.
There are many American Catholics who claim to be “traditional” but they are really only conservative Catholics. One of the best litmus tests is to ask them what the Feast of Christ the King means to them. If they say “Christ is to be king of my heart,” well, that’s a fine answer. But it’s an incomplete answer unless they add on top of that: “…and I also believe in the Social Reign of Christ the King.” That latter sentence reveals they understand that Jesus Christ is King of every square foot on planet earth, regardless of if the country recognizes Him as King of that specific land.
This is such an important distinction, because if Christ is only king of your heart (admittedly a very, very good start) it runs the danger of it just be an emotional relationship with God. But if a true traditional Catholic admits not only the fact that Christ should be King of the heart of every man, woman and child on the planet but also that He automatically has a Social Reign over every government, city, state and even every enterprise—that is worth a lot more than just emotions! It is the recognition of the reality that most illiterate Catholics in the Middle-Ages already knew: Christ is King of Heaven and Earth.
Yet I guarantee you can’t find a single Catholic bishop in the US or the UK who truly believes in the Social Reign of Christ the King. Oh yes, some of them believe in Black Lives Matter (which millions of African Americans have recently seen through.) And yes, every November we’ll get a shallow line from the bishops about how Christ is to be king of our hearts. But they will never name Christ as King of the United States or France or England.
So, while I believe Christ only founded one Church (as He sent his two greatest Apostles to Rome) I also know if her successors go heretical, life will find a way around them. We see this same thing in medicine. When someone has a clogged heart artery, smaller vessels will form around it to continue perfusion of oxygen to the other threatened cardiac tissue. Cardiologists call this “collateral circulation.” So also, when the bishops do not chant “Christ is King,” even the rocks will yell out. Even the Protestants will yell it out.
The same thing happened in the First Century. Even though Judaism was the only true religion on planet earth before the death of Christ, Christ Himself recognized something of this “collateral circulation” of actual graces given to Gentiles when the Jewish hierarchy got very corrupt.
St. Luke records Christ saying: Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.—St. Luke 4:24-27.
Dr. Marian Horvat said earlier this year: After the Great Chastisement, all the peoples of the world will recognize the true God and the true Church – ut omnes unum sint – that they may all be one, not in the ecumenical spirit spoken of in his encyclical by John Paul II and all the conciliar Popes – but truly one united under the Holy Catholic Church. Then, the necessary glory will be given to God in the last era, a glorious era that will precede the End of the World. We who are experiencing this virtual reign of Satan on earth will suffer the deserved chastisement that God will send in our depraved times – as surely as He sent the flood in the depraved time of Noah. But we who will live will also have the honor and joy to see the unexpected intervention of Our Lady from Heaven, who promised her intercession at the very moment “when the evil will appear triumphant and when the authority abuses its power.” This would mark, Our Lady of Good Success said, “the arrival of my hour, when, in a marvelous way, I will dethrone the proud and accursed Satan, trampling him under my feet and fettering him in the infernal abyss. ”(Our Lady of Good Success, Prophecies for Our Times, p. 18.)
So, I don’t know how it’s going to take place, but I believe more and more non-Catholic Christians are going to make it into the real Catholic Church. This will be mysterious, as Our Lady of La Salette predicted the visibility (hierarchy) of the Catholic Church would be “in eclipse” for a period of time, certainly diverting some would-be converts. But the recent marches seem to be a pledge of millions of Christians chomping at the bit to make it into the true Catholic Church—even if they don’t know who she really is…yet.
London, England, Sept 2025. p/c The Yorkshire Lass.