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On today's episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, I share the original meaning of the Feast of Christ the King, what happened to it in the 1960s, and how these fundamental changes affected the faith of Catholics around the world.

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(LifeSiteNews) — This weekend is the Feast of Christ the King.

Wait. Stop. I know what many of you will be thinking: “John-Henry! You’re a month early! It’s at the end of November or so, on the last Sunday before Advent.”

Well. It might surprise you to learn that this weekend is actually the original date of this great modern Feast of Christ the King, which was established in 1925.

This feast, its movement from this weekend to the end of the liturgical year, and what the feast itself has come to mean today, all this tells us so much about the current state of the Church and the world.

In this video I’m going to tell you:

  • The original meaning of the Feast of Christ the King and why the pope established it.
  • What happened to it in the 1960s and how this fundamentally changed the meaning of the feast.
  • How these changes have affected the faith of Catholics throughout the world.

Sounds big for a feast that’s still less than 100 years old, right? But by the end of this you’re going to be shocked at what has happened.

Stick around, you’re not going to want to miss this. This is The John-Henry Westen Show.

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John-Henry is the co-founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of LifeSiteNews.com. He and his wife Dianne have eight children and they live in the Ottawa Valley in Ontario, Canada.

He has spoken at conferences and retreats, and appeared on radio and television throughout the world. John-Henry founded the Rome Life Forum, an annual strategy meeting for life, faith and family leaders worldwide. He is a board member of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family. He is a consultant to Canada’s largest pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and serves on the executive of the Ontario branch of the organization. He has run three times for political office in the province of Ontario representing the Family Coalition Party.

John-Henry earned an MA from the University of Toronto in School and Child Clinical Psychology and an Honours BA from York University in Psychology.

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