Sermon is in French, but the AI translation is provided below it here. There will be more to come from Father Ndong.
You can read about him on this cathinfo thread from 2019

https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/apostolate-of-resistance-priest-fr-pierre-celestin-ndong-in-africa/



 
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

When we speak of Christ the King (Christ-Roi), it can be very difficult to understand what Christ the King means.

So, I'm going to give you very simple examples to understand Christ the King. And you see, this is also why Jesus, to teach these great truths, loved to tell stories, the famous parables. It is easier to understand through stories, examples, than without stories and without examples.

There is a country in Africa—even if some of them think they are not African—that is in Africa, called Morocco. You know it's a kingdom. Can one be king of Morocco, or can there be a king of Morocco who is not Muslim? It's impossible. It's in the Moroccan constitution: their king must be Muslim. He is the commander of the believers.

You go to Israel—that's no longer Africa. Can someone be president, prime minister of Israel without being a Jew by religion? Someone who wouldn't go to the ѕуηαgσgυє, who doesn't know, who is against it, and yet he's going to be president or prime minister of Israel. You know that is impossible because it is the law of Israel.

Further on, you arrive in India. Can one be president or prime minister of India if one is not Hindu? They have, there are Muslims there and even Jews. But the great religion in India is Hinduism. Can one be prime minister, president of India if one is not Hindu? Of course not. You know, that's one of the reasons why India and Pakistan separated. Pakistan was the north of India where the majority were Muslims; the rest of India, the majority were Hindus. And it was a constant struggle. So Pakistan separated to remain Muslim. I give the example of Morocco, but there are many countries, you know, in which if you are not Muslim, you cannot be prime minister, head of state, and so on. Pakistan, of course, there are many. In Africa, there are others.

Finally, China—meaning it's not a religion, but it is an essential criterion. If you are not a Communist... can you be president of the People's Republic of China? It's impossible. You must be a Communist. It's in their law to be president of that country.

So, what is Christ the King? What we Catholics say—just as Muslims say in Morocco, as Jews say in Israel, as Hindus say in India, as Communists say in China—we Catholics would also like our country to be led by a Catholic. That is Christ the King. It's nothing else. That our leader be like us, that is to say, Catholic.

Another, even simpler example. You are Gabonese. Would you like a non-Gabonese person to be the head of state? That your head of state is not a Gabonese person. We'll take a Cameroonian, we'll take an Equatorial Guinean, we'll take a Congolese. And we say: "Well, there you go, that is the head of state of Gabon." Would you vote for that? Do you agree? And similarly, if you cross over, you go to Cameroon, ask the Cameroonians if they would want, if they would agree, for a Gabonese person to be their head of state?

We would like, would want, those who are like us to be our leaders. That's all. This is natural. It is natural. You see, often when you are a foreigner, and we do this in Gabon regarding the affairs of foreigners: "Oh, oh, that's none of your business! Those are the matters of Gabon, the politics, the elections, you shouldn't stick your nose in there!" And if they are foreigners, we will tell them that. If it's in Cameroon: "Our elections are none of your business. You are Gabonese, you shouldn't come and talk about our elections." We speak of foreign interference.

Why? Another very simple example. You are the father of the family. Is your neighbor going to come and make the rules in your house? He says: "Well, here, we get up at such and such a time, we do this, and then you, you're going to do that, and then you, you, you." You say: "Oh, my friend, I'm still the father here, I'm the head of the family. You have your family, take care of your family's matters. Let me manage my family." Yes, it's natural. There's nothing extraordinary. It's self-evident.

There are also heads of families, we have this a lot in our traditions. We have, in such and such a family, where it's: "No, it's him. It's true he's not our father, but he's the one our parents left as, well, it's him." Someone else comes to speak. We say: "But wait, on whose behalf are you speaking? In the name of what?" It's very natural. That is Christ the King.

And you see, when I tell you it's very natural, it is not violence. We would like our leader to be like us, Catholic, not to force, to commit violence. In a country like Gabon, where precisely, the majority do not think this way. We are not going to wage war for that, to say: "No, we are going to force it!" Well, that leads, as you know, to wars of religion. We wage war. Well, that leads to jihad and all those things... "No, we must be Muslim." And you know, many... they are in countries where they are a majority Muslim, what's more. "It's not Catholic, it's not... you are not true Muslims. So, we are going to force you to be true Muslims." You see, they kill more Muslims like themselves. But he says: "They are not good Muslims." They do it through violence.

And that is why in the Gospel, you see clearly, Jesus says: "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight." So, it is not a kingdom by force. Christ the King is not force. We live with weapons, atomic bombs, tanks. We say: "No, if you don't accept Christ, we'll bomb you, we'll destroy everything." No, it is not force. Christ the King is not force. Christ is not imposed by force. That is Christ the King.
And when we say that we want to be led by Catholics like us, what does that mean too? Very simply: in Morocco, you do not have the right to bring a Bible. You go to Morocco, if they see a Bible in your suitcase, they will take it from you. You will not leave with the Bible, you will not enter Morocco with the Bible. They will confiscate it from you. It's in the law.

So, we would also like Catholic things to be put into the law. That it be framed by the law, that it be protected by the law. In Morocco, you cannot build a church. It is forbidden by law. If you build, the law will say: "No, it's forbidden." They will say: "Go on, break it." And they will demolish your church. If there are churches in Morocco, it may be because those churches were there for a long time, and they were tolerated. They say: "Well, okay, you've been there for a while, we'll leave you, but no new churches." No new churches. You manage with that church there. Now imagine your numbers increase and that's your only church. Manage yourselves. You don't have the right to build another one. Find other solutions, but you cannot build a church. They might say: "You can build the church, but you don't put a cross." There is no cross on it. Many have laws, for example: "Your church must not... the bell tower must not exceed the height of the mosques around."

So, in the law, they put Muslim, Jєωιѕн, Hindu, Communist things. And we too would like to see that our laws are Catholic laws. You see, that is Christ the King.
And you know that the moderns, they moved the feast of Christ the King until after All Saints' Day. The Pope at the time (Pius XI) put Christ the King before. This is to show that we want Christ the King for now, while we are still on Earth. The... they changed it, and you always have to ask them: "Why did you change?"

Why do you allow girls to serve Mass? There is a reason. You changed. Girls never served Mass. You allow them to serve Mass. Why? Why do you allow people who are not consecrated to give Communion? Be they Sisters, be they simple people, ladies. There you go, they give Communion. Why did you change that? Why? And when we say: "But if you change that, why do you stop? Why do you then say women must not become priests? Why do you stop there?" It is that he said: "Ah, women can be deacons." They said that, you know. How are they going to do that? I have never seen a woman deacon in the Catholic Church. What are called deaconesses are something else. They were not consecrated. You know that a deacon is on the path, the last step before the priesthood. That has never existed. There are indeed deaconesses in the Bible, but they were not in the lineage of the priesthood.
With confusions like that, one must explain why. So, why did you change Christ the King? But because, they say, Christ the King on Earth is complicated. So it's for after All Saints' Day, there, we are all in heaven, there, Christ is King. There, it's easier that way. But it has already existed on Earth, both in Africa and elsewhere. Ethiopia, which we speak of, Ethiopia was officially Christian long before many kingdoms in Europe. Long before. And Ethiopia remained Christian for a very, very, very long time.

It didn't just exist in Ethiopia, as you know, here, in many places. And it is actually very recent that the Vatican said: "But no, it's not good. We must, we must allow the countries..." where you are told 95% of the population is Catholic. He says: "Ah no, you must not put in the constitution that our country must be Catholic." You see, it's as if you go to Morocco, where it's 98% Muslim, you say: "No, but you mustn't force it. If he is not Muslim, you must accept him as your king." They will say: "Well, never in our lives!" We did that among Catholics. They accepted it. The Vatican itself, they accepted it. There you go.

So, this Christ the King is for now, to the extent that we can. And I repeat, it's not by war, it is not imposed by war, by force, atomic bombs, bombardments and all that. It is imposed by conversion. That's why it takes time. That's also why it can go away, because we don't force people. If you no longer want your head of state to be Catholic, we will not wage war because of that. Let us... ask this of Christ the King. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.