The Behold Your King Podcast
25 October 2025
2025 is not only the 1,700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea but also the centenary of the great encyclical of Pope Pius XI Quas Primas which instituted the Feast of Christ the King.
The two events are connected on many levels. Nicaea was held because Constantine, the first Christian emperor, had defeated his final rival and become sole Roman Emperor. The divinity of Christ proclaimed at the Council of Nicaea is itself the basis for the Kingship of Christ over all nations and all men. As Leo XIII teaches:
“His empire extends not only over Catholic nations and those who, having been duly washed in the waters of holy baptism, belong of right to the Church, although erroneous opinions keep them astray, or dissent from her teaching cuts them off from her care; it comprises also all those who are deprived of the Christian faith, so that the whole human race is most truly under the power of Jesus Christ.”
To commemorate the Feast of Christ the King this Sunday 26 October 2025, and the 100th anniversary of this encyclical on 11 December 2025, Fr Thomas Crean and Dr Alan Fimister discuss the origins, basis, essence and implications of the teaching of Christ’s Universal Kingship, in a new seven-part podcast series now available to stream in its entirety.
The Behold Your King Podcast is the complement to Dr Alan Fimister’s seven-part course on the Family and Life Academy, exploring the Catholic social teaching of the Kingship of Christ following the text of Leo XIII’s 1925 encylical Quas Primas.
To celebrate the feast of Christ the King on Sunday 26 October, as well as the 100th anniversary of the encyclical on 11 December 2025, the Family and Life Academy is making this course available for half price: $40 (£30).
The course was produced in association with the Dialogos Institute and Restore Tradition and consists of ninety-minute classes, given throughout Lent 2025, each followed by a Q&A session.
Course Programme
- The Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ
Quas Primas as the climax of Leonine Catholic Social Teaching. - From Every Tribe and Tongue and People and Nation
The supernatural basis of true international amity - The Son of Man
The supernatural basis of true international amity. - Nicaea-Chalcedon
The biblical basis of Christ’s Kingship. - Redeemer King
Acquired Kingship. - Royal Liberty
What would the Social Kingship of Christ look like? - Homage
The Feast of the Kingship of Christ its purpose and destiny.
Dr Fimister previous course Parents as Primary Educators, following Pius XI’s landmark 1929 encyclical Divini illius magistri, is now accessible for free for free at the Family and Life Academy.