If we overthrow the secular governments of the world and establish the Pope along with the Magisterum as leaders. Except, this probably wouldn’t be a just war, so no go.
I think so, but we would have to persuade the powers that be not to be secular anymore.
Here’s one way to do it in the United States. Note: the following way is easy to show logically possible, but I don’t think it’s the best or easiest way. First, create a new political party called the Christ the King Party. The party platform is nothing more or less than the text of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church. Second, convince a majority of American voters to join this party. Third, elect people to congress and the presidency who belong to this party. Fourth, have the congress people submit and accept the text of the Compendium as an amendment to the Constitution.
If this happened, then I think the following could happen as a result: any time any official anywhere in the U.S. tried to enforce a law that was contrary to the laws of Christ and the Church, we could have somebody appeal that the law is invalid by reference to the Compendium. Since the Compendium would be part of the Constitution in this theory, it would trump whatever law was contrary to it, and therefore any contrary laws would be automatically invalidated. You’d have a State where the Kingship of Christ is supreme so long as you had judges willing to enforce it and so long as no new amendment came along.
If we overthrow the secular governments of the world and establish the Pope along with the Magisterum as leaders. Except, this probably wouldn’t be a just war, so no go.
That’s not what the OP is talking about. It’s not about overthrowing governments and setting up the Church as a government.
It is about society and secular governments basing their decisions on the light of faith. This is addressed in the Catechism. Its more about obeying the ten commandments more than it is about establishing the Church as a government.
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