Christ King

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Christ King is a slogan used by Christians who either pursue a theocracy or a democratic state which grants privileges to the Church (in most cases the Roman Catholic Church).

Religion should either take the place of earthly authority or firmly influence political actions.

The ideological movement of Christ Kingship was started by the encyclical Quas primas of Pope Pius XI, published in 1925. It produces a broad range of political initiatives going from Catholic Social parties, which were near to the left-wing parties but still demanded a place for religion in the public social order, up all the way to clero-fascist parties.

Some followers of this slogan are:

Mexican Cristeros fighting the secularist anti-religious president Plutarco Elías Calles
Rexism (from Latin Christus Rex), an initially Roman Catholic movement, which became ever closer to National Socialism and eventually ended up collaborating (mainly in the combat against communism, that is: against the Soviet Union at the Eastern Front) during the occupation of Belgium by Nazi Germany.
Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey ("Christ King guerrillas"), an armed oppositional organization operating during the Spanish transition to democracy against leftists, liberals and what they deemed obscenity.