![]() ![]() Indeed, there is much substantial unity in this area, although some differences remain. ![]() The following survey of Roman Catholic teaching, taken from the recent Catechism of the Catholic Church, is selected to stress many of the themes that have also been explicated repeatedly in the best Protestant theologies of the state. Yet, there is a rich tradition–not to mention a recent revival–of officially-codified systematic teaching on matters of state. Besides secularism, there has also been a virtual symbiosis of the Protestant Reformation and the spread of western democracies thus in much of the western world, Roman Catholic political theology frequently remained unknown. A once virtually-universal voice, which for centuries had been the dominant Christian voice on political matters in many nations, was shunned by secular and atheistic political models. One casualty during the heyday of secularism was the historic teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. ![]()
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