Resources for Kingship of Christ?

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Are there any books that I can read to help me wrap my head around the Social Kingship of Christ? Listening to some Traditional resources, I keep hearing the phrase, but I don’t fully comprehend what it entirely entails. Thank you and God Bless.
 
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Ultimately, it means Christ is King of kings, so all earthly life, individual and social, should be in accord with His rule. The Gospel should not be segregated from public social life, and should be taken into account by public authorities in their service to the common good (since the Gospel includes man’s highest good). While we are to give to God what is God’s and to Caesar what is Caesar’s, Caesar must also give to God what is God’s.

Here are some important Catechism paragraphs on this:
2105 The duty of offering God genuine worship concerns man both individually and socially. This is "the traditional Catholic teaching on the moral duty of individuals and societies toward the true religion and the one Church of Christ."30 By constantly evangelizing men, the Church works toward enabling them "to infuse the Christian spirit into the mentality and mores, laws and structures of the communities in which [they] live."31 The social duty of Christians is to respect and awaken in each man the love of the true and the good. It requires them to make known the worship of the one true religion which subsists in the Catholic and apostolic Church.32 Christians are called to be the light of the world. Thus, the Church shows forth the kingship of Christ over all creation and in particular over human societies.33
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It is especially the laity’s job to order civil society to Christ the King’s rule:
898 "By reason of their special vocation it belongs to the laity to seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs and directing them according to God’s will. . . . It pertains to them in a special way so to illuminate and order all temporal things with which they are closely associated that these may always be effected and grow according to Christ and maybe to the glory of the Creator and Redeemer."431

899 The initiative of lay Christians is necessary especially when the matter involves discovering or inventing the means for permeating social, political, and economic realities with the demands of Christian doctrine and life. This initiative is a normal element of the life of the Church:
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When societies don’t do this, bad things happen:
2244 Every institution is inspired, at least implicitly, by a vision of man and his destiny, from which it derives the point of reference for its judgment, its hierarchy of values, its line of conduct. Most societies have formed their institutions in the recognition of a certain preeminence of man over things. Only the divinely revealed religion has clearly recognized man’s origin and destiny in God, the Creator and Redeemer. The Church invites political authorities to measure their judgments and decisions against this inspired truth about God and man:

Societies not recognizing this vision or rejecting it in the name of their independence from God are brought to seek their criteria and goal in themselves or to borrow them from some ideology. Since they do not admit that one can defend an objective criterion of good and evil, they arrogate to themselves an explicit or implicit totalitarian power over man and his destiny, as history shows.51
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A sadly neglected title for our Lord. I saw one catechetical Teacher’s Guide (lectionary based) that urged teachers to guide students away from this theme, on that feast day.

I saw a bulletin insert that was almost embarrassed that the Church still had a feast for this “medieval” role.

The idea is that Jesus is presented now only as our Friend. He is a Friend, but much more.
 
Oddly enough, despite never having heard of this feast or title much, that is how I most often perceive God: as the King of all creation, an authority figure who’s reign is absolute, even if we cannot see it.
Maybe this feast and title should be encouraged, rather than discouraged.
 
We don’t have to choose one or the other: Jesus as friend, or Jesus as King.

As the Evangelicals say, we can and should have a personal relationship with Jesus. But the danger is that we might also worship My Jesus (my feelings about Jesus, subjectivism) rather than our King, who is much greater than me.

The neglect of Christ the King in recent decades is one factor in the appalling passivity among Catholics (and Protestants) in the West.

We have rightly been taught the “who am I to judge?” Message since 1960 - meaning we can’t determine the heart of another individual - but wrongly applied it to allowing legalized abortion, gay marriage, and other evils.

Our culpable passivity has not brought others into the Faith, but brought about the demolition of much of Christendom in the world our grandchildren grow up in.

Watch what they do with our statues.
 
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