This feast has its origin in 1920 when the Pope at the time realised that there was the threat of much social chaos in Europe – in fact it was already present, at the overthrow and assassinations of kings and emperors in Portugal, Spain, Austria-Hungary and Russia – in the previous decade. Hence the decade…
‘So you are a king, then?,’ said Pilate
Icon of Jesus Christ the Saviour of the World, by Alexey Akindinov. Photo: OSV News/
Alexey Akindinov, Wikimedia Commons

Fr John McCarthy