Defending the Social Kingship of Christ
By Kristen Ziccarelli There are few things more foreign to the modern imagination than the idea of a Christian king. We are accustomed to separating the sacred from the political, faith from public life, and the Church from the ordering of society. But for much of Christian history, these divisions would have seemed all but impossible. Today's feast of King St. Louis IX of France (August 25) offers us an opportunity to recover a gem of medieval wisdom, which is the prospect that political authority can be truly ordered toward Christ. King St. Louis IX, who ruled France from 1226 to 1270, is…
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