Kitsch is King?

How Sentimentality Replaced Catholic Worship

This Sunday, Catholics will celebrate the Feast of Christ the King.
At least those using the pre-1969 calendar. The modern version is Catholic kitsch. I’ll get to that…

Everyone’s talking about a Christian revival. But when you walk into a church, you hear hymns that sound like pop songs. Sanctuaries that look like stages. It’s a mood the Apostles wouldn’t recognise: soft, casual, and sentimental.

Everyone proclaims “Christ is King.” Catholics. Protestants. Groypers. But instead of kneeling, they just want to feel good about God, but more so about themselves.

But the original Feast was never sentimental. It was a declaration that no ideology, parliament, or culture stands above the throne of Christ.

A Forgotten Kingship

The Feast was instituted in 1925 by Pope Pius XI through Quas Primas. It was just after the Great War, and Europe was drunk on nationalism, socialism, and fascism. Governments demanded the loyalty once owed to God. Like they still do, but only worse.

The Feast was a means of …