First article in a long time is up on Catholic365, just in time for Christmas:

Among the strictures against monarchy presented by the American Revolutionaries was the absurdity that a king can come to the throne at any age, and that, as Mr. Hamilton put it in one of the Federalist Papers, “a helpless infant or an unexperienced youth may wear the crown.”

Indeed he may, and it is a helpless infant wearing the Crown of Crowns that we go to adore on Christmas.

The very same paper had Mr. Hamilton assuring his readers that the American President “cannot be an idiot,” so we know his judgment in these matters is not infallible. And contrary to the claims of the Founding Fathers, a child king is exactly where kingship shines forth in its greatest purity. It does so precisely because the one in whose authority we stand and to whom we owe our service, obedience, and reverence is a helpless infant.

Read the rest here. Merry Christmas!