Category: Catholic Critique
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Rethinking Pomp and Circumstance in the Catholic Church
When Jesus of Nazareth told Pilate, “My kingdom is not of this world,” He wasn’t being poetic. He was naming a rupture, a severing between the power structures of empire and the new order He embodied: one marked by humility, vulnerability, and open arms rather than lush robes. And yet, in the centuries that followed,…