CHRIST 
OUR KING 

BY 
VERY REV. MSGR. HENRY A. CARLIN 

Pastor, the Church of the Holy Rosary, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

Four addresses delivered on the Catholic Hour from October 7, 1951 
through October 28, 1951. This program is heard on the National 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

The Mother Of The King 7 

The Legate Of The King 14 

The Vineyard Of The King 22 

The King Himself 80 





THE MOTHER 
Address delivered 

One day during His earthly 
career our Blessed Lord, kneel-
ing down in the presence of His 
disciples to pray, so edified them 
that, when He arose f r o m His 
knees, they rushed up to Him 
and said: "Lord, teach us to 
pray." And our Divine Lord, we 
a r e told, was so pleased with 
their request t h a t He t a u g h t 
them the words of t h a t beauti-
f u l prayer known as the "Our 
F a t h e r , " a prayer which f r o m 
t h a t time until this has been, and 
f r o m this until time be done 
shall be, mankind's main means 
of p r a y e r f u l intercession. But 
a f t e r the Ascension of Our Bles-
sed Saviour and the Assumption 
of His Immaculate Mother into 
Heaven, the fervent children of 
Mother Church yearned f o r an-
other prayer, a prayer which 
would permit them to express, 
without prejudice to the adora-
tion due t h e i r Creator, their 
love and veneration f o r the 
grandest of His creatures. To 
answer this need and to fill this 
void, Mother Church, as a com-
panion-prayer to the Angelic 
Salutation, coined f o r the daily 
use of h e r f a i t h f u l children the 
beautiful words of the "Holy 
Mary." 

OF THE KING fíT^t, 
on October 7, 1951 

"Holy Mary, M o t h e r ^ f e ® ? " 
she t a u g h t us to say, and well 
indeed may we call her holy, if 
f o r no other reason than j u s t be-
cause she is the Mother of God. 
But in addition she is the great-
est and the highest and the 
saintliest of God's creatures, a 
model of holiness these nineteen 
hundred years f o r God's child-
ren on earth and forever more 
the incomparable queen of God's 
chosen f r i e n d s in Heaven. 
Clothed f r o m the very first in 
sanctity, always luminous and 
glorious in God's sight, she was 
predestined f o r perseverance, 
and her life throughout its 
course of years was b u t a suc-
cession of meritorious acts. Yes, 
hers through life was always em-
phatically the path of holiness, 
and hers since death has been 
the highest throne in Heaven, 
higher even than the throne of 
the highest of God's angels and 
God's saints. 

And so, well indeed may we 
call h e r holy, and well too, since 
she is God's Mother, may we so-
licit her aid, day in and day 
out, but particularly a t the hour 
of our death. In fact, it is pre-
cisely because of h e r greatness 
and h e r dignity and h e r sanctity, 



8 CHRIST OUR KING 

precisely too because of the effi-
cacy of her intercession, that 
Mother Church has been so so-
licitous to follow in detail her 
life just as she has followed in 
detail the life of her Divine Son, 
pointing out both her virtues 
and her privileges and institut-
ing festivals to commemorate 
each of them. And it is precisely 
for these same reasons that 
Mother Church has set aside the 
lovely months of May and Octo-
ber, one-sixth of the entire year, 
during which she asks us to hon-
or God by honoring His Immac-
ulate Mother. 

And how, think you, does 
Mother Church tell us to give 
this dual honor to God and the 
"Holy Mary." We are to honor 
her, and we are to ask her inter-
cession. And when we say "Holy 
Mary, Mother of God," we are in 
reality honoring her sanctity 
and her dignity. And when we 
add "Pray f o r us sinners," we 
have the second element in our 
devotion to God's mother, re-
course to her intercession. And 
if we would see both the reason-
ableness and the efficacy of this 
dual devotion, we have but to ask 
ourselves two questions — is 
Mary worthy of the honor we 
give her, and has she the power 
and will to help us when we ask? 

Now, is Mary worthy of the 

honor we Catholics give her? A 
thousand times yes, my friends. 
God, you know, is the infallible 
judge of all worth, and when we 
confine our veneration to one 
whom He himself has honored, 
there can be no question of our 
going astray. And God, my 
friends, has left us f a r behind 
in the matter of showing love 
and veneration f o r His Blessed 
Mother. So, let no one worry lest 
He go too f a r , f o r what honor 
could you or I give her, granted 
of course that it be less than the 
adoration we reserve f o r God 
alone, that could possible com-
pare with the honor which He 
Himself lavished upon her when, 
out of all creatures both actual 
and possible, He selected her to 
be His mother. God, of course, 
stands upon a pedestal apart, 
f o r He is the Infinite One, and 
no creature is ever worthy to be 
mentioned with Him in the same 
breath. There is an infinite dis-
tance, and there must ever re-
main an infinite distance, be-
tween Him and her. But . among 
all God's creatures—creatures, 
mind you, I say—our Blessed 
Lady rightly occupies the very 
highest pinnacle, and she stands 
there without as much as a 
single rival. 

The world today, my friends 
outside the Catholic Church will 



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have little or nothing to do with 
honor for the Mother of God. 
Men and women, it seems, are 
.quite willing to honor the mother 
of Washington, the mother of 
Lincoln, your mothers and mine. 
They are quite willing to set 
aside a day each year on which 
they wear carnations in honor 
of their mothers, living and 
dead. But alas, there are only a 
few outside the Catholic Church 
who consent to give due honor 
to that mother of mothers, the 
Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

"Pray f o r us sinners," we say, 
and by so saying we invite with 
confidence the intercession of' 
our Blessed Lady. But, can Mary 
really help us? Does God listen 
to her pleas for sinful man? For 
an answer turn back the pages of 
Sacred Scripture to the days of 
the patriarch Moses. The Israel-
ites of his day had fallen into 
idolatry, and God's anger was so-
aroused against them that He 
solemnly declared that He would 
destroy them and obliterate their 
names from the Book of Life. 
But did He actually do so? Do 
we read anywhere in the pages 
of Holy Writ of the wholesale 
destruction of these rebellious 
people? No, it never took place, 
f o r God was moved to.pity and 
forgave them. And why? What 
marvelous power was it that 

stayed the arm of Divine Just-
ice? The Scripture tells us that 
Moses went down on his knees 
and implored his God to spare 
his people, and that God granted 
his prayer. What a picture we 
have here! On the one hand we 
see a people in open rebellion 
against God, giving themselves 
up to every species of licentious-
ness; on the other we behold a 
justly indignant God about to 
destroy them from the face of 
the earth. One thing only stands 
between them and destruction. 
And what is it? Well, contem-
plate the venerable form of the 
patriarch Moses. His arms are 
outstretched in supplication, his 
eyes bedimmed with tears are 
raised to Heaven, his long white 
beard is streaming in the wind, 
and there is a look of most in-
tense agony stamped upon his 
countenance as he beseeches God 
in burning accents to have mercy 
and to spare. From the heights 
of Heaven God looks down upon 
it all. He calls to mind the vir-
tues and the holiness of Moses; 
He remembers his zeal and his 
loyalty. And He is more touched 
by the goodness and loving t r u s t 
of this one upright man than He 
is angered by the crimes of three 
million of his fellow men. And 
so, because of the prayerful in-
tercession of His servant, Moses, 



10 CHRIST OUR KING 

God relents and extends forgive-
ness even to those who are most 
unworthy. But now our question 
is this—if such be the efficacy 
of the intercession of one of the 
patriarchs f o r sinful man, what, 
think you, must be the inter-
cessory power of her who is the 
Queen of Patriarchs? 

And there is a similar picture 
in Sacred Scripture of Abraham 
interceeding f o r the citizens of 
the City of Sodom. God, you 
know, was so provoked by the 
frightfully obscene excesses of 
the Sodomites that He declared 
to Abraham that He would send 
f i r e from heaven to destroy the 
whole city. Naturally Abraham 
was sad at the f a t e that awaited 
his sinful people, and he set out 
to obtain from God a more f a -
vorable sentence. Now, you 
would imagine, would you not, 
that one man's virtues arraigned 
against the crimes of a whole 
city would have a very poor 
chance of prevailing. But you 
must remember that in God's 
sight a saint outweights a whole 
world of sinners. And so Abra-
ham's prayer did not go unheard. 
"Wilt thou," he said, "destroy 
the just with the wicked? Wilt 
thou not spare that place f o r the 
sake of f i f t y just, if they be 
therein?" And the Lord said to 
him: "If I find in Sodom f i f t y 

just within the city, I will spare 
the whole place f o r their sake." 
But Abraham, fearing that there 
were not f i f t y just men in the 
city, said: "What if there be five 
less than f i f t y just persons, wilt 
thou f o r five and forty destroy 
the whole city?" And God 
answered that He would not. 
And Abraham kept pleading in 
this manner until he wrung from 
God a promise to spare the whole 
city, if but ten good men could 
be found therein. 

Now, my friends, my point is 
_this—if God so loves to listen to 
the prayers of His saints-on be-
half of sinners, if He spared 
three millions of sinful Israelites 
at the prayer of Moses, if He 
was willing to spare the sinful 
citizens of the City of Sodom at 
the prayer of Abraham, what, 
think you, will He ever refuse to 
her who is justly seated at his 
right hand in Heaven. What plea 
of hers can ever fall unheeded 
upon the ears of her Divine Son ? 
What prayerful look of hers 
shall ever fail to touch that 
Sacred Heart that f i r s t was 
formed of her purest blood? 
Truly, my friends, can we say, 
and say with confidence: " P r a y 
f o r us sinners," confidence not 
only in God's willingness to 
answer her, but confidence too 
in her willingness to ask. 



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Granted then that she can help 
us, will she do so when we ask? 
I think, my friends, that I need 
not answer that question, f o r 
surely there can be no one in 
this audience who has not al-
ready had abundant proof of her 
love. She, you know, is our 
mother as well as she is the 
Mother of God. How do we know 
that? Well, didn't God tell us as 
much in those last solemn mo-
ments as He hung twixt Heaven 
and earth on Good Friday after-
noon on Calvary's knoll? Yes, 
she is our spiritual mother, and 
therein lies the key to our con-
fidence. For even in our fallen 
nature, soiled as it certainly is 
a f t e r centuries of sin, there are 
still some feelings that seem to 
defy corruption, and chief 
among these is the strength and 
the nobility and the permanency 
of a mother's love. A f t e r cen-
turies of mistreatment it is still 
patient and ineffaceable, still un-
selfish and everlasting. I t never 
tires and it never gives up. Time 
has never been able to weaken it, 
and even ingratitude has been 
unable to kill it. I t is the one 
great universal passion, the sin-
less passion of sacrifice, as no-
ticeable in hovels where pinch-
i n g poverty breaks its meagre 
crust as in palaces where opulent 
wealth holds Saturnalian feasts. 

It has produced and fondled and 
reared and inspired all the hosts 
who have walked through time 
into eternity since man f i r s t 
raised his eyes towards the 
heavens. It will, please God, re-
main with us in unwavering f i -
delity forever more. 

Yes, even in this cold and sin-
ful world a mother rarely for-
sakes her child. Unlovely that 
child may seem to others, but 
they do not see him with a 
mother's eye. He may have d r i f t -
ed far, f a r away from the moral 
moorings of his innocent child-
hood; he may have placed the 
early wrinkles upon his mother's 
brow and sown the streaks of 
silver in his mother's h a i r ; he 
may have planted thorns in her 
pillow and broken her heart by 
his follies and his crimes. All the 
world today may hate him. I t 
matters not—she will remember 
only that she is his mother and 
that he is her boy. And finally, 
when all her schemes for his re-
formation have failed, and when 
his sins, as sins invariably will, 
have found him out, when the 
court of law has passed its sen-
tence and the heartless machin-
ery of justice is about to grind 
its grist of agony, she will be 
found at the foot of the scaffold 
like Mary at the foot of the 
Cross, and she will cover the con-



12 CHRIST OUR KING 

demned body with kisses and 
with tears. And when the t r a p 
has fallen she will coffin her 
heart with the body of her boy, 
and her soul will begin the eter-
nal vigil of a deathless love. 

My friends, we have been 
speaking of the strength and the 
nobility and the permanency of 
an earthly mother's love f o r her 
wayward child. Now, how shall 
we ever be able to express the 
depth of love of the Mother of 
God for us. Only this do we offer 
—an earthly mother may per-
chance at times forget and for-
sake her child, but Mary can no 
more forget us than she can for-
get Him Who gave us into her 
maternal care. Confidently, 
therefore, can we say to her 
"pray f o r us sinners now and at 
the hour of our death." 

There is yet one point that I 
would make this afternoon. 
While the exalted privileges of 
Mary make her worthy of our 
veneration, while her saintly in-
fluence before the throne of God 
renders her worthy of our invo-
cation, her purity of life stamps 
her as worthy of our imitation. 
She is, according to the non-
Catholic poet, "our tainted na-
ture's solitary boast." She is the 
clearest mirror among mere 
creatures of the holiness of God, 
and the choicest masterpiece of 

His artistic Omnipotence. She is 
the peerless glory and the match-
less jewel of her sex, a "mother 
with a maiden's innocence, a 
maiden with a mother's love." 
To real men she has always been 
the truest and tenderest, most 
loving and most lovable woman 
that earth could know, actually 
the loveliest loveliness of this 
world. To women since the dawn 
of Christianity she has been a 
model and pattern alike f o r 
maiden, wife and mother, ex-
hibiting the virginal modesty 
becoming the maiden, the con-
jugal fidelity and loyalty of the 
spouse, and the untiring devo-
tion of the mother. And if today 
our Blessed Lady occupies such 
a prominent place in Catholic 
pulpits, if altars and temples are 
erected in her honor and festi-
vals are celebrated in her praise, 
her prominence, my friends, is 
due not only to her dignity as 
Mother of God and to her power 
as patroness of sinners, but also 
to her example ás a saint. For 
no one, our Lord Jesus Christ 
Himself excepted, has ever ex-
ercised so dominant and so 
beneficial an influence on so-
ciety, on the family, and on the 
individual, as the Immaculate 
Mother of Jesus Christ our King. 

I t is a commonplace among 
spiritual writers that we go to 



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Jesus through Mary, and that 
the grace to love and imitate her 
should be our daily prayer to 
Him. Happy are .those who al-
ready have i t ; happier still are 
those who greatly prize i t ; hap-
piest of all are these on f i r e with 
it. The f a i r light of eternity, the 
golden prophecies of a happy 
death, and the cheerful securities 
of a joyous judgment are upon 
them. There can be no such thing 
as repentance in Heaven. But, 
if there could be, when we see 
Mary there we shall wish that 
we had known her better, prayed 
to her more fervently, and loved 
her more ardently on earth; f o r 
we shall see brighter places than 
our own f a r t h e r forward in the 
glory of Heaven, where we might 
have been had we loved her 
more. 

From this day forward let us 
be real children of Mary. Let us 
count that day lost on which we 
do not lovingly linger over the 
mysteries of her rosary. To 
those who have not the habit of 
its daily recitation I offer this 
as a worthy day on which to 

make a beginning, f o r today is 
the feast of Our Lady of the 
Most Holy Rosary, the 380th an-
niversary of the Battle of Le-
panto, which brought about the 
institution of the feast. As your 
lips pronounce the prayers, your 
mind will dwell on the principal 
mysteries in the lives of Jesus 
and Mary. At the thought of 
their sacrifices f o r you, your 
heart will grow warm and your 
eyes will fill with tears. She will 
take your prayers to God and 
bring back his grace and mercy 
to you. The more you meditate, 
the more will you learn to know 
her; the more you learn to know 
her, the more sincerely will you 
admire her; the more you ad-
mire her, the more ardently will 
you love h e r ; the more you love 
her, the more anxiously will you 
imitate her. And when, my 
friends, you imitate in your 
lives the virtues of the Mother 
of God, I need claim no power of 
n v o T v h e c y to tell y o u that yours 
should be har>t>v lives, that yours 
should be peaceful deaths, that 
vours should be a glorious eter-
nity. 



THE LEGATE 
Address delivered 

The human race has invar-
iably f e l t the need of a priest-
hood, of a body of men officially 
charged to be mediators between 
God and man and to offer to God 
prayers and sacrifices in the 
name of h u m a n society. 
Throughout the ages wherever 
religion was professed, where-
ever altars were built, there also 
was to be found a priesthood, 
and a priesthood surrounded by 
particular marks of honor and 
respect. 

The Old Law, inspired as it 
was by God and promulgated by 
Moses, set up a priesthood t h a t 
was held in such honor t h a t 
even Alexander the Great, cer-
tainly no model of modesty, 
bowed in humble reverence be-
f o r e the figure of its High 
Priest, and God Himself is on 
record as having visited His 
wrath on the impious King of 
the Chaldeans because he dared 
to profane the sacred vessels of 
its Temple. Yet t h a t ancient 
priesthood derived its greatest 
glory and majesty f r o m the f a c t 
t h a t it was a prototype of the 
priesthood of the New and eter-
nal Covenant, the Covenant 
sealed with the Blood of the 

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i October 14, 1351 
Eedeemer of the human race, 
Jesus Christ, t r u e God and t r u e 
Man. I t is of this priesthood, 
the Christian Priesthood, t h a t 
we speak today. 

The Christian Priesthood! 
Where, my friends, will you find 
the tongue t h a t can adequately 
describe i t ; where is the mind 
t h a t can entirely comprehend 
i t ! - We have all been in r a t h e r 
close relationship with it since 
infancy and we have frequently 
witnessed the functions which 
belong to it. But have we ever 
realized t h a t in those functions 
and in the potent powers which 
they demand there is a revela-
tion of the Most - High God 
transcending the reach of the 
most acute faculty of the human 
mind. The priesthood, you 
know, is one of the corollaries 
of the Incarnation. With infi-
nite condescension God's E t e r -
nal Son came upon earth in pas-
sible flesh to ransom our fallen 
race, and He chose to effect t h a t 
ransom by offering expiatory 
sacrifice. Since sacrifice should 
be offered by a priest, He came 
into this world both P r i e s t and 
Victim. Since the Victim was 
Divine and the offering P r i e s t 



THE VINEYARD OF THE KING 15 

Divine, that sacrifice became all-
sufficient f o r man's salvation. I t 
wrought what the Psalmist 
termed "plentiful redemption." 
Indeed, so truly all-sufficient was 
the one Sacrifice of Christ on 
Calvary that it bears to be 
offered to the end of time. And 
so truly all-sufficient was the 
Priesthood of Christ that those 
whom He ordains throughout 
the ages to offer the sacrifice of 
Calvary are but sharers of His 
one and only Priesthood, so that 
in making the great oblation at 
the altar they but stand in His 
place, they but speak His words, 
they but use His Divine power. 
He had only one priesthood to 
give to His apostles, His own. 
He shared that with them and 
made it mandatory upon them 
to transmit it to others. Accord-
ingly, they first ordained Mat-
thias to succeed the traitor, 
Judas. Later they laid hands in 
Christ's name and in His stead 
upon Paul and Barnabas, and 
these in turn laid hands in 
Christ's name and in His stead 
upon those whom they had 
chosen to assist them in the 
Master's work. And thus, my 
friends, has the priesthood of 
Christ come down through the 
centuries in all its fulness, so 
that when today the deacon 
kneels before his bishop f o r sac-

erdotal ordination Jesus Christ 
is as really present and as really 
makes him a partaker of His 
eternal priesthood as He did 
some .nineteen hundred years 
ago when He breathed upon 
Peter and his companions and 
ordained them to continue the 
work of His Incarnation. 

Here, then, is the secret of the 
dignity of the Christian priest. 
He is so imbued with the priest-
hood of Jesus Christ Himself 
that holy men have not hesitated 
to call him an "alter Christus," 
another Christ. His dignity 
springs neither f r o m nobility of 
birth nor from noted name. His 
dignity can be traced neither to 
his natural talents nor to his 
acquired learning, and it has 
nothing whatsoever to do with 
the church in which he minis-
ters or the congregation that he 
serves. His dignity does not 
even arise from the long history 
and splendid services of his 
fellow priests. It is t r u e that he 
can look back across twenty 
centuries and behold that 
splendid body of men who by 
their undaunted sacrifices have 
kept ablaze the torch of Faith, 
and handed it down brighter 
still by reason of the luster their 
virtues have shed around it, and 
who still live and labor in your 
midst to preserve and defend it. 



16 CHRIST OUR KING 

He can see their fame recorded 
in every department of human 
endeavor. They have been the 
pioneers of education, the foster 
fathers of art, and thera is no 
department of human learning 
or human science in which their 
names do not shine. They have 
gathered facts of every form 
and garnered them into sciences 
of every kind; they have touch-
ed all the facts of the earth and 
tested all the theories of the 
heavens. Yes, it is an ancient 
and honorable company into 
which a priest steps at the time 
of his ordination; thereafter he 
walks forever a brother of the 
mighty dead. Yet it is not from 
any or from all of these things 
that he derives his dignity; it is 
not because of these things the 
people reverence him_ and his 
father's sons bow down before 
him. No, his dignity has but 
one source and one justification 
—the stupendous change that 
was wrought in him by the im-
position of hands and the grace 
of ordination, when he put on 
the eternal priesthood of Jesus 
Christ and stood before the 
world "an alter Christus," an-
other Christ. 

What mortal man could ever 
be worthy of so great dignity? 
Indeed it must ever remain one 
of the mysteries of God's deal-

ings with mankind that He did 
not commit this sublime office to 
His holy angels instead of to 
sinful men. Who, it might be 
asked, but those bright spirits 
are perfect enough to discharge 
the various duties of a priest? 
Who else, f o r instance, dare pre-
sume to take into their hands 
the very Victim Who had hung 
on Calvary's Cross ? Our Blessed 
Lord, however, thought other-
wise. Despite the fact that He 
knew men to be sinful and sel-
fish and unreliable; despite the 
fact that He foresaw one Apostle 
would betray Him, another deny 
Him, and all in a moment of 
danger forsake Him—still He 
knew that His mission on earth 
until the end of time was to be 
so human, so closely in touch 
with the wounds and wants and 
weaknesses of men, so intimate-
ly associated with the sinful, 
struggling multitude, that He 
considered men, despite their 
defects, best suited to discharge 
the duties of His priests. 

The greatest dignity and 
power of the Christian Priest-
hood is the dignity and power 
to change bread and wine into 
the Body and Blood of Jesus 
Christ. This is the power that 
makes the priest; this is the 
dignity that keeps him in honor 
among men. We Catholics be-



THE LEGATE OP THE KING 17 

lieve that at Holy . Mass through 
the ministry of His priests the 
Victim of Calvary really and 
-truly comes down upon our al-
tars and there before our eyes 
offers up to His Eternal Father 
in an unbloody manner, of 
course, the same stupendous act 
of expiation f o r the sins of men, 
the same supplication for new 
favors and renewed mercy 
which He once sealed by His 
death. To make this offering 
visible to our mortal senses, He 
has appointed visible and mortal 
men to be His priests and has 
authorized them to take His 
place at the altar, to utter His 
own words with power to pro-
duce the same effect which they 
produced when at His Last 
Supper He uttered them with 
His Divine lips. Thus at the ap-
pointed time in the ceremonial 
the priest at Mass takes in his 
hands bread and wine, pro-
nounces over them the solemn 
words of consecration, and on 
this utterance the bread and 
wine are changed into the Body 
and Blood of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, the Eternal Son of God. 
A tinkling bell announces that 
the stupendous change has 
taken place, and all who are 
present bow down to adore the 
Body that was born in Bethle-
hem, that walked through Judea, 

that died on the Cross. And 
they are joined in adoration by 
the angels of God who hover 
around the altar during the cele-
bration of Holy Mass. Those 
glorious spirits recognize in th« 
Sacred Host the same Omnipo-
tent Being Whom through 
cycles of centuries they have 
worshipped amid the splendors 
of Heaven. And one can indulge 
the fancy that, while these noble 
spirits adore the Sacred Host, 
Cherub will say to Seraph that 
the priest has done a prodigy 
surpassing all their angelic fac-
ulties, and Thrones and Domi-
nations and Powers will confess 
the wonder and will praise the 
Lord Who has commissioned the 
priest to do a marvel which not 
even the highest and holiest of 
the nine choirs is able to effect. 
Yes, and if they look up to the 
dazzling heights whereon their 
Queen, God's great Mother is en-
throned, they will know that not 
even she can do the thing that 
is done by the consecrating 
words of the priest. In this sub-
lime mystery the priest is as-
sumed into awful identity with 
the Divine Redeemer. "This is 
MY Body," we hear him say, 
not "This is the Body of 
Christ." 

The second great dignity and 
power of the Christian Priest-



18 CHRIST OUR KING 

hood is the dignity and power 
to forgive sin. On the evening 
of the first Easter Sunday, 
whilst the Apostles were gather-
ed together in that famous 
supper chamber in Jerusalem, 
the risen Christ appeared to 
them,, breathed on them and 
said: "Receive ye the Holy 
Ghost. Whose sins you shall 
forgive, they are forgiven them; 
and whose sins you shall retain, 
they are retained." These were 
simple words, but words with 
Divine power behind them— 
somewhat the same simple words 
as brought forth heaven and 
earth in the first days of crea-
tion. And St. Augustine tells us 
that the uplifting of a sinner to 
grace is a greater feat than the 
creation of the world. 

J u s t consider f o r a moment 
the man in whom is wrought the 
melancholy revolution of mortal 
sin. When in grace the smile of 
God's love beamed upon him; by 
act of serious sin he becomes 
God's enemy. Before the com-
mission of mortal sin he was a 
very tabernacle within which, as 
truly as in the glory of Heaven, 
the Great God dwelt; by the 
commission of grave sin God is 
driven f o r t h and the soul has 
lost its beauty. Now this dark 
picture of the sinner's state is a 
background against which there 

stands out in the bright colors 
the wondrous endowment which 
Heaven has conferred upon the 
priest. For let the sinner kneel 
before the priest and with con-
trite heart declare his wrong-
doing, let the priest pronounce 
the words of absolution, and lo, 
the heavens are opened, the 
waters of God's mercy descend, 
the clouds that hovered over the 
sinner are lifted, and the full 
current of sanctifying grace is 
turned on once again in his soul, 
healing it and making it once 
more beautiful with something 
of His own divine beauty. 

The very commonness of ' 
priestly absolution and the ease 
with which we receive it are 
likely the reasons why we are 
not affected with a thousandth 
part of the holy sensation it 
should produce. Many a f e a t 
immeasurably less avails more 
to strike the imagination. Let 
there enter, for instance, into 
the ward of a large hospital a 
man of preaternatural endow-
ments ; let him use his wondrous 
power merely by stretching 
forth his hand to release from 
pain all who are there confined— 
and all the world will ring with 
his praises. Or better still, let 
this wonder-worker betake him-
self not to the ward of a hos-
pital but to the cemetery where 



THE VINEYARD OF THE KING 19 

your loved ones are sleeping the 
sleep of death. Let him stretch 
f o r t h his hand and say the word, 
and then let the graves render 
up their tenants. Those feats, 
my friends, have never been 
done. Had they been done, all 
the world would have heard of 
them and voices without number 
would be uttering their praise. 
And yet, those of the Faith 
know, and know f o r a certainty 
that a f a r greater f e a t is done 
by the act of priestly absolu-
tion. The priest, of course, does 
not give life to a dead body; he 
gives life to the dead soul—and 
the death of the soul is the su-
preme evil. 

On the day when Christ, in 
the person of the bishop, 
breathes upon the young Levite 
and anoints him in sacerdotal or-
dination, He places in his hands 
the Blood that was shed f o r the 
world's salvation. Before the 
last drop thereof archangels fall 
down in profoundest worship, 
and with thrilling wonder do 
they behold it in the hands of 
mere man, and in his person the 
power to use it f o r giving life to 
the soul that was dead. And 
when the absolving deed is done 
and they behold the sinner come 
forth from the confessional in 
the light of sanctifying grace 
they marvel at the wondrous 

power of the priest. And when 
they hear him say "I absolve 
you from your sins," knowing 
that only He whose majesty is 
offended by sin can pardon it, 
they begin to realize just why 
the priest is called "another 
Christ." 

The immortal Saint Francis 
of Assisi was once asked his idea 
of the reverence due to the man 
whom the providence of God has 
uplifted to the dignity of the 
Christian Priesthood. He was a 
man whom humility kept from 
the priestly office. His answer 
was t h i s : "Were I to meet an 
angel and a priest, I should 
salute the priest first." Here we 
have the feeling and attitude of 
a man guided by Faith. For 
Faith tells us that the greatest 
among human beings who walk 
this earth is not the man whose 
income is measured in millions, 
not the general who rides at the 
head of a victorious army, nor 
the founder of philosophical 
school, nor the imperial monarch 
in regal splendor clad. No, 
Faith tells us that the highest 
dignity that graces the earth 
today is the dignity of the 
Christian Priesthood, whose au-
thority comes f r o m God and 
w h o s e powers transcending 
earth reach back to Heaven. 

But the Christian Priesthood, 



20 CHRIST OUR KING 

my friends, like Him from 
Whom it has come is set for the 
fall and f o r the resurrection of 
many in this world. The gentle 
Saint Francis and all who are 
on God's side entertain f o r it 
only the deepest sentiments both 
of inward reverence and of out-
ward ' respect. Anti-clericals 
throughout the world reserve f o r 
it only their most venomous 
hate. And, paradoxically as it 
may seem both St. Francis and 
the anti-clericals are guided by 
the selfsame principle. The 
Saint knows that the priest rep-
resents God, God's law and God's 
interests, and he therefore cher-
ishes f o r him a loving reverence. 
The anti-clerical too knows that 
the priest represents God, and 
f o r that very reason he holds 
him beneath his corftempt. Our 
Blessed Lord prepared us f o r 
this sad condition of affairs 
when He said: " I F they have 
called the good man of the house 
Beelzebub, how much more them 
of His household." And on an-
other occasion, when speaking 
to His disciples, he warned: 
"They will put you out of the 
synagogues; yea, the hour 
cometh when whosoever killeth 
you will think that he doth a 
service to God. And these things 
will they do to you, because they 
have not known the Father nor 

Me. But these things I have told 
you that, when the hour shall 
come, you may remember that I 
told you." 

And so, my friends, men who 
lend a willing ear to the constant 
protest of fallen nature against 
the purity and justice of the 
Gospel of Christ, and who are 
unwilling to render to God a 
reasonable service, will always, it 
seems, hate the purpose of the 
priestly office. And the surest 
sign of the approaching defec-
tion and spiritual suicide of 
either individuals or nations is 
a diminished respect for the con-
secrated ministers of Christ. 

Thus in modern Mexico we 
have seen sacerdotal martyr-
doms equal in glory to the mar-
tyrdoms in the Roman Coliseum, 
in the first century of our Chris-
tian era. In modern Italy and 
Germany and Jugoslavia dicta-
tors, intoxicated with autocratic 
power and guided by the prac-
tical irreligion of the day, have 
attempted with cruelest methods 
to dictate to the priesthood in 
general and the Vicegerent of 
Christ in particular just how f a r 
they may go in the exercise of 
the priestly office. Yes, and in 
modern Russia that dictator of 
dictators has crimsoned the 
streets of the soviet cities with 
the blood of his sacerdotal mar-



THE VINEYARD OF THE KING 21 

tyrs, and the salt mines of Si-
beria and the barren wastes of 
the Russian Northland are at 
this very moment echoing with 
the piteous cries of the Polish 
priests there confined f o r the 
alleged crime of serving their 
God. 

Oh when, my friends, think 
you will worldlings learn that 
the Christian Priesthood is as 
eternal and as indestructible as 
is the Great High Priest, Jesus 
Christ, Himself! When, think 
you, will governments and dic-
tators learn that the Priesthood 
of Christ like Christ Himself is 
everlastingly ineffaceable! But 
f e a r not, my friends. Modern 
governments and modern dicta-
tors may continue to Work with 
a success worse than most dis-
mal failure to get along with-
out either God or His priests. 
They may continue to loose-upon 
society maddening waves of 
irreligious activity and to hurry 
men along in a flood of destruc-
tive frivolity. They, may think 
all the while that they are 
effectively shutting out God 
from the hearts of man f o r 
whose well-being He died. They 

may foolishly imagine that they 
are approaching the day when 
His Priesthood will be no more. 
But friends, f e a r not! Fear not, 
for as surely as the roof is above 
us and the floor supports our 
feet, as surely as God reigns in 
Heaven, so surely will they fail. 
And when posterity totals up 
their efforts it will be forced to 
admit, what worldlings have al-
ways been forced to admit when 
totalling up the efforts of the 
persecutors of God's priesthood, 
that the loftiest structure that 
impiety can ever raise is but the 
Babel monument of its own im-
potence. And so, my friends, 
when modern thrones have 
crumbled and modern dynasties 
are no more, when modern dic-
tators and modern persecutors 
are as silent in their graves as 
the moonbeams, when the unholy 
dust of the Hitlers and the Titos 
and the Stalins has mingled 
f o r ages with the unholy dust of 
all who have preceded them in 
that unholy office, the Christian 
Priesthood will be here on earth 
still. Yes, "Honor God in all thy 
soul, and give honor to His 
Priests." 



THE VINEYARI 
Address delivered 

Throughout the Catholic world 
this is known as Mission Sun-
day. I t was so designated by His 
Holiness, Pius XI, in the hope of 
advancing through alms and 
prayers and sermons the all-
important work of the propaga-
tion of the Faith. I t would seem 
fitting, therefore, t h a t our series 
of October discourses on the gen-
eral theme of Christ The 
King should bring us today to 
the consideration of His King-
dom on earth, His Vineyard, His 
Church. 

Our Lord Jesus Christ, you 
know, came down upon earth and 
walked among men primarily to 
offer a sacrifice of atonement, 
to cleanse men f r o m sin, to make 
them children of God and heirs 
of His Kingdom in Heaven. He 
wanted also to teach the t r u t h s 
of eternal life and to instruct 
men in all things necessary f o r 
salvation. 

With this end in view He 
founded a Church, a Church as 
wide as the world and co-exten-
sive with mankind, and He plac-
ed a t her head St. Peter, the 
Prince of His twelve Apostles. 
F o r t y days a f t e r His Resurrec-
tion, as He was about to say 

OF THE KING 
i October 21, 1951 
farewell to His Blessed Mother 
and His f a i t h f u l friends, He as-
sembled his Apostles on a mem-
orable mountain in Galilee and 
gave into their keeping the char-
t e r of His newly-organized 
Church. 

Here, my friends, are His very 
words as recorded by St. Mat-
t h e w : 

"All power is given to me in 
heaven and in earth. Going there-
fore, teach ye all nations; baptiz-
ing them in the name of the Fa-
ther, and of the Son, and of the 
Holy Ghost. Teaching them to 
observe all things whatsoever I 
have commanded you: and be-
hold I am with you all days, even 
to the consummation of the 
world." 

These words, my friends, can 
have but one meaning. By them 
the Apostles were commissioned 
to teach all men, to teach them 
with authority and with in-
fallible utterance, and to teach 
thus with the sanction of eternal 
life or eternal damnation upon 
the acceptance or the guilty re-
jection- of their words. 

For the same Jesus Christ, to 
Whom all power was given in 



THE VINEYARD OF THE KING 23 

heaven and in earth and who 
made the Apostles partakers of 
that power, is recorded in the 
Gospel according to St. Mark to 
have said: 

"Go ye into the whole world, 
and preach the gospel to every 
creature. He that believeth and is 
baptized, shall be saved; but he 
that believeth not shall be con-
demned." 

The Apostles went f o r t h in 
the strength of this divine com-
mission to be witnesses of Christ 
"in Jerusalem, and in all Judea 
and Samaria, and even to the 
uttermost part of the earth." 
Their only weapon was the cross, 
their only credential the teach-
ings of Christ and the miracles 
they wrought through His Pow-
er. 

To appreciate the gigantic dif-
ficulty thus undertaken we need 
only compare the very limited 
qualifications of the Apostles 
with the enormous obstacles 
lurking in their way. They were 
not orators or philosophers or 
historians. Actually, with the 
possible exception of St. Paul, 
there was not an educated man 
among them. They Were mostly 
untutored fishermen and tax-
gatherers, again except f o r St. 
Paul. They could speak and und-
erstand well but one language, 
the national Aramaic dialect, in 

an age when Hellenistic Greek 
was the recognized international 
tongue. 

Never did anyone say a more 
unlikely thing than did Jesus of 
Nazareth when He foretold how 
this dozen of poor, unlettered, 
incapable, and timid men would 
change the face of the earth and 
bring about a state of things 
then impossible, now a fact. 

For the Roman Empire of 
their day had achieved a materi-
al success like which none other, 
before or since, has been wit-
nessed in this world. I t was the 
strongest and most absolute 
power that ever existed. The 
sword of her legions ruled the 
land, and the prow of her galleys 
swept the seas. The iron law of 
her senate laid its inflexible 
grasp upon the will of men. The 
wealth of Egypt and Araby was 
poured into her coffers, and the 
a r t of Athens and of Corinth en-
riched her shrines. From her 
capital legislators of supreme 
human wisdom guided the des-
tinies of the earth. Within her 
council-halls statesmen of su-
preme c r a f t planned her maps 
and parcelled out her nations. 
Her forum was filled with ora-
tors and historians and poets 
and philosophers, whose magnifi-
cent Augustan talent has toned 
all" newer literature, and whose 



24 CHRIST OUR KING 

taste is still taught in all later 
universities. 

Yes, surely the task assigned 
the Apostles by the Divine 
Founder of the Church was a gi-
gantic one, and humanly speak-
ing, hopelessly impossible and 
beyond their strength. The fero-
cious might of the Roman Em-
pire was opposition enough to 
cost them tears that were price-
less, agony beyond the telling, 
and blood that was worth the 
ransom of the world 

But to make matters even 
more difficult they had to preach 
to a world that was pagan, with 
all its vices and concupiscences. 
They had to announce a Gospel 
of absolute purity to people in 
an age in which vice and immor-
ality had become a public wor-
ship. Men and women who had 
never known anything but full 
gratification of every passion 
were to be tamed and conquered 
and brought into obedience to 
the Church of Christ. The power-
f u l and the stubborn, the proud 
and the vainglorious were to 
humble themselves under the 
sweet yoke of the divine Teacher. 
The most learned and the most 
cultured and accomplished schol-
ars and philosophers of Rome 
and Greece were to be asked to 
bow their heads and submit their 
judgments and renounce their 

pet theories at the challenge of 
the followers of "a crucified 
criminal." 

Men and women, accustomed 
to every luxury and worldly de-
light, and who had never denied 
themselves in anything, were 
now asked to renounce their own 
wills, to walk the narrow way of 
the Commandments, and to take 
up their cross daily and follow 
their crucified Lord. 

Such was the change called for 
by the charter of God's Church. 
And how was it to be accomp-
lished? 

Well, since it was God's work, 
and since He was determined 
that no one should ever mistake 
it f o r the work of another, He 
deliberately chose what, humanly 
speaking, were the most inade-
quate and impossible instru-
ments. 

As St. Paul reminds us: "God 
hath chosen the foolish things of 
the world, that He might con-
found the wise; and the weak 
things of the world, that He 
might confound the strong." 

And so He chose men without 
wealth or position or education 
or refinement or culture, or any-
thing else, in the natural order 
to recommend them—He chose 
them to carry the glad tidings^ 
of His Gospel throughout the 



THE VINEYARD OF THE KING 25 

world, and to work the marvelous 
changes He had in view. 

There seemed little hope of 
turning the wealthy, pleasure-
loving Romans to the way of the 
Cross, when Peter took up his 
residence in the ghetto of the 
City of Rome. What scorn there 
must have been in the eyes of the 
patricians who saw him as he 
passed along the marble walls of 
the Forum. If the Emperor, loll-
ing on his purple cushions, no-
ticed him at all, among the 
crowds viewing the Imperial 
procession on its way to the 
Temple, he would have been very 
much amused to think that this 
lone stranger had come to Rome 
to establish a new religion that 
was to destroy paganism. 

Rome, the invincible, was used 
to new religions, and one more or 
less hardly mattered. Rome ab-
sorbed them all, and had no f e a r 
of any of them. But Rome soon 
changed her mind. 

Within 50 years the wealthi-
est, the wisest and the fairest 
of her citizens had abandoned 
the false gods and were kneel-
ing before the altar of the Cru-
cified Christ. With the Roman 
legions that marched over the 
broad roads that led from the 
Forum to the ends of the earth 
marched also the baptized and 
confirmed soldiers of Christ. 

Wherever the Roman eagles 
waved in triumph, the Mass w a s 

offered, and officers and soldiers 
received the Body and Blood of 
Christ in Holy Communion. 

Less than 30 years a f t e r Our 
Lord's crucifixion St. Paul could 
write to these same Romans: 
"Your Faith is spoken of 
throughout the whole world." 

The divinely established and 
divinely supported Church of 
Christ had not only spread 
among the people of the Ro-
man Empire. There were al-
ready, according to St. Paul, neo-
phites in the palace of Nero. In 
less than 100 years from the 
Resurrection, so f r u i t f u l had 
been the labors' of God's mission-
aries, that Christian churches 
were established in almost every 
great city of the known world. 

And the proud capitol of the 
pagan world had become also the 
see of supreme ecclesiastical jur-
isdiction of the Vicar of Christ. 

So rapid had been the spread 
of Christianity that the Roman 
emperors became alarmed. They 
determined that the new religion 
must die. So for nearly 300 years 
the struggle of the gates of hell 
against Christ's Church raged in 
the Roman Empire. There were 
in all ten general persecutions, 
and the first 30 Popes, save one, 



26 CHRIST OUR KING 

followed Peter to Heaven by the 
way of martyrdom. 

Actually, every instrument of 
torture which the savage ingenu-
ity of the heathen could devise 
was used in tormenting and put-
ting to death Christ's f a i t h f u l 
children. Some were clothed in 
the skins of wild animals to be 
worried and torn to pieces by 
savage dogs. Others were cover-
ed with pitch and set fire to il-
luminate the Roman streets at 
night. All who would save their 
lives had to burrow beneath the 
Roman pavements and live in 
the catacombs until the days of 
the persecutions were over. 

During three centuries the 
persecution went on, and by that 
time the very soil of the Roman 
Empire was saturated and crim-
soned with the blood of thou-
sands of Christian martyrs. 
Their churches and their homes 
had been destroyed, and hardly 
a vestige of Christianity remain-
ed. I t looked like the supreme 
hour of triumph f o r paganism, 
and it looked too, as though God 
had forsaken His followers. 

But at the very moment when 
paganism was celebrating its 
apparent victory, Constantine 
the Great, Emperor of Rome, 
granted the Church her freedom, 
and she came forth from the 
catacombs reduced in member-

ship by the thousands of martyrs 
but with her sacred symbol glit-
tering on royal diadems, and 
with the rulers who had perse-
cuted her accepting her man-
dates with reverence and with 
love. 

The story of the three centur-
ies of persecution of the Church 
must ever remain a powerful ar-
gument f o r the Divinity of the 
Faith that has been handed 
down to us. Both the study of 
history and the tyranny of logic 
lead to the selfsame conclusion— 
it cannot be man-made: it must 
be from God. 

For something more than a 
century a f t e r the Edict of Milan 
the Church was allowed to go her 
way in peace. Julian the Apos-
tate, it is true, within that time 
tried to restore the worship of 
false gods, but his wild scheme 
lasted for only two years. And 
he, whose very name proclaims 
his perfidy, as he lay on an ob-
scure battlefield in Persia, dy-
ing from an arrow-wound in his 
side, is said to have caught up 
his life-blood in his hands, and 
casting it towards Heaven, cried 
out in dying testimony of the 
Divinity of God's Church: "Gali-
lean, thou hast conquered." 

In the fifth and sixth centur-
ies a great disaster fell upon 
the civilized world, when the 



THE VINEYARD OF THE KING 27 

savage men from the North 
rushed down upon Europe in a 
whirlwind fire, breathing ven-
geance and destruction to every 
form of civilization and culture. 
It looked f o r a time as though 
the Church was doomed to share 
in the general ruin. 

But once again the God Who 
made her. guided her, and she 
was able to harness and shackle 
all that fierce energy. She sent 
her ministers of peace back with 
them into their Northern vast-
nesses, bent their necks to the 
yoke of the Gospels, built them 
up as nations, and out of the 
strength of these converted 
Norsemen came the great peo-
ples of the Middle Ages, the 
Ages of Faith. 

When the fanatical Moslem 
jwept over the earth some cen-
turies later, with victory crown-
ing his every effort, it seemed 
as though the Crescent must sup-
plant the Cross in Europe. But 
it did not. Despite the fact of 
overwhelming numbers and the 
exaltation of repeated conquests, 
a f t e r centuries of bloody wars 
and bitter persecutions, in that 
memorable sixteenth century 
Battle of Lepanto, the hordes of 
the Crescent went down to utter 
defeat before the glorious legi-
ons of the Cross. 

The trials of the first thou-

sand years of the Church's ex-
istence, though more bloody than 
any which she has since suffered, 
were f a r from being as disast-
rous in their results as others 
with which she has since had to 
contend. Throughout the ages 
schism a f t e r schism has rent her 
ranks, and heresy a f t e r heresy 
has seduced her children. In the 
cataclysm of the sixteenth cen-
tury she lost millions of her 
members and she saw the Europe 
she had fashioned divided in two. 

But undaunted and unconquer-
ed, she stood by her charter, and 
a f t e r 400 years she not only sur-
vives, but gradually and surely 
is winning back the territory she 
had lost. 

On Pentecost Sunday in the 
year- 33 A.D., when the twelve 
humble heralds of the Cross 
went f o r t h from the coenaculum 
to preach the Gospel in accord-
ance with the commission Christ 
had given them, the Church 
numbered but a few hundred 
members within the walls of 
Jerusalem. 

Today, a f t e r the lapse of more 
than nineteen centuries, she has 
expanded and is still expanding 
in ever widening circles over 
the face of the universe. She 
counts her children in excess of 
300 million of every race, na-
tion and tribe. 



28 CHRIST OUR KING 

For 1900 years she has wel-
comed all generations and has 
fought all foes. Since the Di-
vine Spirit animating her will 
not permit the gates of hell to 
prevail against her, she will con-
tinue to welcome all the genera-
tions that are coming, and fight 
the foes now looming dark in f u -
turity. 

Yes, were even Satan with all 
his demon hosts to assault her, 
she would easily withstand their 
combined attack, because by her 
side has stood from the begin-
ning, is standing today, and will 
stand to the end of time, Him 
Who is Satan's master, Jesus 
Christ. 

There is a fable among the 
Egyptians that the great pyra-
mid was built by men who lived 
in the days before the world was 
destroyed by the Deluge, and 
that it alone of all the works of 
man survived the weight of the 
flood. 

Somewhat similar has been 
the f a t e of God's Church, f o r she 
is still standing in serene ma-
jesty on the rock where her Di-
vine Founder placed her, de-
spite the fact that f o r 1900 years 
the angry waves of human pas-
sions and of Hell's undying hat-
red have beaten against it. Time 
and again over the ages she has 
been persecuted and buried un-

der a deep inundation, but always 
when the muddy waters of 
schism, heresy and persecution 
receded she appeared again and 
alone amidst the ruins of a world 
that had passed away. 

Now, in the twentieth century 
of her life she is as buoyant in 
her energy, as beautiful in her 
innocence, as f r e s h in her enter-
prise, and as triumphant in her 
advance as when first, over the 
bones of a dead earth, was 
breathed the Spirit of Pentecost. 

No misfortune has ever been 
able to depress her. No clime has 
ever been able to destroy her. No 
despotism has ever been able to 
enslave her. 

Reviled, she has always re-
monstrated; murdered, she has 
always revived; buried, she has 
always reascended; and every at-
tempt at her oppression has in-
variably proven the t r u t h of her 
immortality. 

The powers that opposed her 
and the institutions that began 
life with her have long since 
mingled with the elements. Their 
temples and their trophies have 
molded into dust. The glory of 
their names is now but the leg-
end of tradition, and the light 
of their achievements lives only 
in song. 

But the Catholic Church, 
founded by Jesus Christ, defend-



THE V I N E Y A R D OF THE KING 29 

ed by the valor of her f a i t h f u l 
children, consecrated by more 
than 1900 years, and cemented 
by the blood of her myriad mar-
tyrs, even amidst the present 
noise of the crumbling kingdoms 
and the tumult of civil strife, 
continues on and on throughout 
the ages, still teaching the same 
doctrine committed to her by her 
Divine Founder — "One, Faith, 
one Baptism—Jesus Christ yes-
terday, today, and the same for-
ever." 

My friends, if the r greatest 
boast of the Roman citizen in 
the days of Christ was the very 
fact of his Roman citizenship— 
and St. Paul tells us that it was 

—how much more reason have 
we to be proud of our citizen-
ship in God's Church. 

On this mission Sunday let us 
thank God that we are permitted 
to be among the more than 300 
million who make up what is 
known as the Church Militant on 
earth. Let us beg of Him as the 
greatest grace of our lives t h a t 
we may hold on through life to 
that Faith so tenaciously and 
live according to its principles so 
sincerly that we will one day be 
deemed worthy by the infallible 
Judge of all worth to be admit-
ted into that eternally glorious 
body, the Church forever trium-
phant in Heaven. 



THE KING HIMSELF 
Address delivered 

J u s t a little over a quarter of 
a century ago, and at this very 
season of the year, His Holiness, 
Pius the Eleventh, introduced in-
to the liturgy of the Church a 
new f e a s t under the title of 
CHRIST T H E KING. He order-
ed it to be celebrated annually 
and universally on the last SunT 
day of October, and the Catholic 
world today is obediently and 
reverently and joyously carrying 
out his command. 

In giving us this new f e a s t 
the distinguished Pontiff made 
it quite plain t h a t he was not 
stating a new t r u t h . For he was 
aware t h a t the t r u t h of the 
Kingship of Christ goes back 
even into Old Testament-times, 
in which the f u t u r e Messias was 
hailed and prophesied as King 
in at least three of the Psalms 
(2-44-71) as well as in the Books 
of Isaias and Daniel. And the 
New Testament, of course, has 
abundant proof of the Kingship 
of Christ. In the very f i r s t chap-
t e r of the Holy Gospel according 
to Saint Luke the Archangel is 
recorded as saying to Mary con-
cerning the child t h a t she would 
b e a r : "And of His kingdom there 
shall be no end." In the nine-

on October 28, 1951 
teenth chapter of the Apocalypse 
our Blessed Lord is called the 
"King of kings and Lord of 
lords." But Saint John the Evan-
gelist in the eighteenth chapter 
of his Gospel gives the classic 
proof f o r the Kingship of Christ, 
a proof advanced by no less a 
personage than our Lord Jesus 
Christ Himself. The scene is the 
sorrowful sight of Christ, on the 
night before His death, being 
interrogated by Pilate. Pilate 
had already asked our Blessed 
Saviour whether He claimed to 
be a king, and Jesus, had answer-
ed merely t h a t His Kingdom was 
not of this world. Pilate was not 
satisfied with this answer, and 
he asked Him a g a i n : " A r t thou 
a king then ?" And Jesus answer-
ed in these words t h a t can never 
be f o r g o t t e n : "Thou sayest t h a t 
I am a king; f o r this was I born, 
and f o r this came I into the 
world; t h a t I should give testi-
mony to the t r u t h . Everyone t h a t 
is of the t r u t h , heareth my 
voice." 

The regal character of Christ, 
therefore, is well established in 
Sacred Scripture. I t was equally 
well recognized in the Ages of 
Faith. And the establishment of 



THE KING HIMSELF 31 

the Feast of Christ the King a 
quarter of a century ago merely 
fastened the attention of the 
Catholic world on a fact that 
much of that world had over-
looked since medieval times, the 
fact, namely, that Christ is not 
only Priest and Prophet, but 
King as well. 

Christ is our King both by 
birthright and by acquired right 
—by birthright, because He is 
the very Son of God, and conse-
quently rightly reigns over all 
that is not God: by acquired 
right, because He rescued us 
from captivity and redeemed us 
from eternal damnation by the 
great price that He paid for us, 
His own blood shed unto the re-
mission of our sins. His King-
dom, of course, as He Himself 
has told us, is of a spiritual 
nature. He has planted it within 
our living hearts. Therein does 
He lovingly dwell, and therein 
does He reign in absolute au-
thority, whether this authority 
be freely admitted and practic-
ally obeyed, or whether men 
spurn and make mockery of it, 
as sô many have-done in ages 
past, and as so many more are 
doing in these our times. For 
surely were one to pick out a 
characteristic of our present age, 
which would be both strikingly 
prominent and universally in-

stant, it would undoubtedly be 
the present day revolt against 
authority in all its phases. And, 
since there is no authority that 
is not from God, our revolt 
against authority is really a re-
volt against God. Indeed, the 
Supreme Pontiff was unques-
tionably acting under the guid-
ance of God when he gave us the 
new Feast of Christ the King, 
for he thereby provided for the 
-perpetual affirming before the 
whole world, and at a time when 
the world needed it so badly, of 
the Divine Right of the King of 
kings to the loyalty and allegi-
ance of mankind. 

Yes, Christ the King reigns by 
right over all the world, but He 
has many rebellious subjects, 
and He seems at times to have 
been expelled from some depart-
ments of life and from much of 
man's activities. He has, for in-
stance, little or no place in the 
education of the child. Even in 
this country of ours, wherein we 
pride ourselves upon the Chris-
tian origin of our political in-
stitutions, Christ is excluded, 
and excluded, mind you, by a de-
cision of the Supreme Court, 
from our entire system of pub-
lic education. Now, mark well, 
my friends, that I say nothing 
derogatory concerning the secu-
lar training to be had in these 



32 CHRIST OUR KING 

non-religious schools. They de-
serve and receive our support in 
so f a r as they go, and I merely 
wish to deplore the fact that un-
der existing conditions, support-
ed as they are by taxes levied on 
believer and unbeliever alike, 
they cannot, it seems, go f a r 
enough. What a pity that God 
must be excluded f r o m so all-
important a work! For centuries 
of experience have taught us 
that the very heart of culture is 
the culture of the heart, that the 
soul of all improvement must be-
gin with the improvement of the 
soul, that the making of life, 
both temporal and eternal, is 
much more important than the 
mere making of a living, and 
that devotion to one's country 
must always go hand in hand 
with devotion to one's God. 

And what place has Christ the 
King in the councils of the na-
tions ? Not one of the Great Pow-
ers bothers about Him, and in 
not one department of state is 
His law accepted as the law 
which must bind the nation in 
all its policies, and guide them 
to their conclusion. And with 
what results? Well, my friends, 
we have had two world wars in 
less than two generations, wars 
that cost the lives of millions of 
the bravest men that ever lived, 
that left a casualty list of wound-

ed and captured and missing of 
tens of millions more, that left 
the belligerent nations poorer by 
several hundred billions of dol-
lars, and that literally filled the 
world with the cries of sonless 
mothers and fatherless children 
and widowed wives. The gentle 
Christ, the King of the world 
and the Prince of peace, was ex-
cluded from the deliberations 
that preceded them, and He was 
shunned and insulted at Ver-
sailles. Scholarly statesmen have 
written volumes to explain the 
tragic failure of the Treaty of 
Versailles to maintain the peace. 
Some have said that it was be-
cause it lacked "teeth." Others 
have traced its failure to the in-
sincerity of the peacemakers, 
who deliberately included known 
impossibilities among its pro-
visions. And very many of them 
blame its failure on the failure 
of our own country to take its 
place in the League of Nations. 
Now, there is merit, and some-
times plenty of it, in their judge-
ments, but almost to a man they 
have failed to hit upon the real 
reason. And the real reason is 
this—the Treaty of Versailles 
resulted in another and a greater 
world war within the short space 
of twenty years primarily be-
cause God was not permitted to 
play any part in it, thus verify-



THE KING HIMSELF 33 

ing the warning words of King 
David of old: "Unless the Lord 
build the house, they labor in 
vain that build it." And, if God 
and His eternal truth s are once 
again ignored at the next peace-
table, no one need claim any pow-
er of prophecy to predict that 
World War Number Two, de-
vastating and destructive as it 
was, will be remembered merely 
as the prelude to World War 
Number Three, a conflict thdt 
will be devastating and destruc-
tive beyond the telling, and that 
World War Number Three will 
either destroy entirely the civili-
zation of the centuries, or will 
leave it hanging ever so tremb-
lingly in the balance. 

What place has Christ the 
King in the daily dealings be-
tween capital and labor? The 
question answers itself when we 
reflect that almost perennially 
they are in a state of warfare, 
a warfare that is brought on by 
the separation of the laws of in-
dustry, finance and commerce 
from the laws of justice and 
charity promulgated by Christ 
the King. There are modern em-
ployers who have not yet learn-
ed that the laborer has a right 
to a living wage; that he has a 
right to all the essentials and at 
least some of the comforts of 
life; that he has a right to an 

education, for without it he can 
hardly succeed in life; that he 
has a right to amusements, f o r 
he is not a machine, but a man 
with a God-given capacity f o r 
enjoyment; that he has a right 
to a home of his own, f o r life 
without a home is a travesty on 
life and a mere existence; and 
that the laborer is his equal in 
the great commonwealth of 
Christianity, and it is also true 
that there are many workers and 
employees who are unwilling to 
give an honest day's work for 
the wages they receive. Christ 
our King died for both employer 
and employee, both are children 
of Our Father in Heaven; both 
are equally destined f o r bless-
ings a f t e r death. And it is a pity 
and a shame that equals in this 
sublime spiritual brotherhood 
should give evidence in their 
lives of the basest kind of in-
equality, that one should so often 
wear the trappings of excessive 
wealth and the other should 
have stamped upon his f r e e 
brow the stigma of economic 
slavery. And there are laborers 
who have been abusing their 
right to strike; who deliberate-
ly limit their output even when 
wages are adequate; who are not 
reasonable, but greedy; not f a i r , 
but exorbitant; who want not all 
they deserve, but all they can 



34 CHRIST OUR KING 

get; who grow in selfishness as 
the employer grows in genero-
sity. All this is wrong, and 
worthy sons of toil will have 
nothing to do with it. 

My friends, all this disloyalty 
to the principles of Christ our 
King, and many others which 
time will not permit us to men-
tion, have made ours a chaotic 
world, a world in turmoil the 
like of which has never been wit-
nessed by modern man. Actual-
ly, we have reached a critical 
period in the world's history, 
and the civilization of the cen-
turies looks none too secure. For 
some years past it has been com-
mon knowledge among intelli-
gent men that the moral world 
has been tumbling down a preci-
pice, gaining more and more 
terrible momentum, more and 
more f r i g h t f u l velocity as it 
goes, and only those who have 
been either woefully dense or 
willfully deaf have failed to de-
tect the war cloud in the world 
of economics or to feel the actual 
vibration of strange social 
changes and of stranger moral 
upheavals. Today it is plainly 
evident to all thinking men that 
we are on the eve of a great 
crisis f r a u g h t with tremendous, 
yet unmeasurable issues. To-
ward it all men are now look-
ing, evil men with fierce exul-

tation, God-fearing men with 
grave anxiety, if not with 
shrinking dread. Friends, if 
ever our world, and the world of 
Christ our King, stood in need 
of clear-thinking, clean-living, 
God-fearing men and women, 
surely this is the day. 

Be then clear thinkers! Mod-
ern thought has broken away 
from its respectable moorings. 
It sees no polar star of t r u t h ; 
it holds no compass of conduct. 
It doubts about everything, ex-
cept that there is no dogma. It 
d r i f t s with the current of pleas-
ure or with the breath of exped-
iency. It seems to be getting 
more and more pagan day by 
day. And so, clever chatterers, 
blinded by the dust of matter 
and deafened by the din of time, 
will try to convince you that 
there is no hereafter. Pseudo-
scientists will attempt to fling 
the fetters of their human con-
ceptions upon the supreme free-
dom of God and to measure with 
mortal scale and human standard 
the unsearchable secrets of His 
wisdom. But, if you are clear 
thinkers, you will readily detect 
the pretentious ignorance of the 
one and the shallow sophistries 
of the other. Pseudo-moralists 
will try to tell you that the State 
or sentiment or public opinion or 
social utility is the norm of mor-



THE KING HIMSELF 35 

al conduct, and that right and 
wrong are just two different 
words applied to the selfsame 
thing. But, if you are clear 
thinkers, you will recognize that 
they are wretchedly wrong; that 
only the Divine Will as imprint-
ed on the human heart and re-
vealed in the Decalogue and per-
fected by the teachings of Christ 
is or can be the basic norm of 
morality; that things are right 
or wrong accordingly as they 
are in agreement or disagree-
ment with the Divine Will — 
indeed, so much so that, if there 
were no God and no Divine Will 
there would then be no es-
sential difference between right 
and wrong. But since God exists 
and has given a revelation of 
His Divine Will in the Ten Com-
mandments and in the teachings 
of His divine Son and since He 
is essentially unchangeable, right 
must be always right and wrong 
always wrong, and things must 
be always forbidden. Hence, my 
friends, the pseudo-moralists to 
the contrary notwithstanding, 
there can be neither fads in 
morals nor styles in ethics. Mor-
ality is something objective, 
something outside the mind of 
the individual. God is its criter-
ion, and man's whims and man's 
caprices simply do not matter. 
An oldfashioned explanation the 

pseudo-moralists will say, and 
one not in keeping with modern 
advancement! They may even 
smile at your credulity and lack 
of sophistication, but, if you are 
clear thinkers, you will be able 
to see in their smiles something 
of that pale phosphoric glow that 
marks the putrescence of the hu-
man mind. And the pseudo-
economist, when there are days 
of colossal wealth among the few 
and abject want among the many 
— when there are too many 
bricks and not enough homes, 
too much wheat and not enough 
bread, too much cotton and not 
enough clothes, too much goods 
and not enough money — the 
pseudo-economist, I repeat, be-
cause of these economic misfort-
unes which at times embarrass 
us, will attempt to direct you to 
Communism as the only way out. 
But, if you are clear thinkers, 
you will readily realize that, al-
though Capitalism has its faults, 
sometimes almost insufferable 
faults, Communism is immeasur-
ably worse — that it is but a 
quack cure for the modern econ-
omic cancer, and like all quack 
cures it is worse than the disease 
itself. If you are clear thinkers 
in this modern economic chaos, 
you will become neither intoxi-
cated with the fumes of the ora-
tory of these Godless dema-



36 CHRIST OUR KING 

gogues nor delirious with their 
dreams of communistic spoils, 
but you will insist that, if a 
change in our economic system 
must come, there be no transi-
tion from one extreme to the 
other — that there are plenty of 
economy policies worthy of trial 
somewhere between the Capital-
ism that has been ruining us and 
the Communism that would com-
plete our destruction. 

And be men who live clean 
lives! Be men and women of 
rounded characters with trained 
wills as well as trained intellects, 
and an ability to say NO to dis-
honorable suggestions regardless 
of whether it comes from the 
world, the flesh or the devil. This 
no doubt, will call for the 
strength of the^ hero and 
the heroine, f o r there is 
abroad today a distressing 
license in both manners and 
morals and a looseness in con-
duct and speech that is injurious 
alike to both youth and age. You 
are living in a time which seems 
to have lost its sense of sin. In-
deed, someone has said that so 
many things sacred and essential 
to human dignity in sexual af-
f a i r s have been turned upside 
down by modern pagans that to-
day the paradox of Shake-
speare's Macbeth comes force-

ably to mind: " F a i r is foul, and 
foul is f a i r . " 

Lastly, be God-fearing men 
and women! Follow Christ your 
King! All light is in His wis-
dom; all love is in His heart. If 
you were made only of body, and 
not of body and soul, then might 
the world and the things of the 
world prove sufficient f o r your 
happiness. But, made of body 
and soul, you must know that, 
whilst the pleasures of this world 
may satisfy the needs of the 
body, only God and His rewards 
can ever satisfy the cravings of 
your soul. And so, my friends, 
you may eat until time be done 
and drink until creation crumble, 
but if in the meantime you neg-
lect the love and the service of 
God you will be unhappy and 
unsatisfied still. And why? Be-
cause, as Saint Augustine has so 
beautifully put it, "Thou has 
created us for Thyself, 0 Lord, 
and our hearts will never rest 
till they rest in Thee." 

This brings our series of Octo-
ber discourses to a close. May 
the truths that I have stressed 
and the principles of conduct 
that I have held up before you 
be ever a staff for your falter-
ing footsteps, the inspiration of 
your wisdom, the motive of your 



THE KING HIMSELF 37 

work, and the secret of your 
success. Under the approving 
smile of Christ our King may 
they be to you what the compass 
is to the sailor, so many beacon 
lights directing your souls on-
ward over the ocean of life safe-
ly into the haven of salvation. 
May the tiniest acts of your 

daily hours gather their insig-
nificant strength into the little 
wave of a well-spent day. May 
your days, be they fretted or 
tranquil, swell into broad bil-
lows of months. May your 
months widen out over horizons 
of years. And then, may your 
years exult in a life-time of good. 



THE PURPOSE OF THE CATHOLIC HOUR 
(Extract from the address of the late Patrick Cardinal Hayes at the in-

augural program of the Catholic Hour in the studio of the Nationa\ 
Broadcasting Company, N e w York City, March 2, 1930.) 

Our congratulations and our gratitude are extended to the Nation») 
Council of Catholic Men and its officials, and to all who. by their financial 
support, have made it possible to use this offer of the National Broad-
casting Company. The heavy expense of managing and financing a 
weekly program, its musical numbers, its speakers, the subsequent an-
swiring of inquiries, must be met. . . . 

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greeting a^d, indeed, congratulations. For this radio hour is one of 
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historic background of all the centuries of the Christian era, and with 
its own notable contribution to the discovery, exploration, foundation 
and growth of our glorious country. . . . 

Thus to voice before a vast public the Catholic Church is no light 
task. Our prayers will be with those who have that task in hand. We 
feel certain that it will have both the good will-and the good wishes of 
the great majority of our countrymen. Surely, there is no true lover 
of our Country who does not eagerly hope for a less worldly, a less 
material, and a more spiritual standard among our people. 

With good will, with kindness and with Christ-like sympathy for 
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