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Catholic thinkers believed that government authority was to be limited by natural and customary laws, as well as independent institutions such as the Church. [2] Even papal authority should be balanced by the secular nobility (episcopalism) and the Church hierarchy (election of the Pope by the conclave , and the conciliar movement ).
American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church (1998) Prendergast, William B. The Catholic Voter in American Politics: The Passing of the Democratic Monolith (1999) Woolner, David B., and Richard G. Kurial. FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945 (2003)
The politics of Vatican City take place in a framework of a theocratic absolute elective monarchy, in which the Pope, religiously speaking, the leader of the Catholic Church and Bishop of Rome, exercises ex officio supreme legislative, executive, and judicial power over the Vatican City as it is being governed by the Holy See, [1] a rare case ...
The Roman Curia (Latin: Curia Romana) comprises the administrative institutions of the Holy See [note 1] and the central body through which the affairs of the Catholic Church are conducted. The Roman Curia is the institution which the Roman Pontiff ordinarily makes use of in the exercise of his supreme pastoral office and universal mission in ...
The relations between the Catholic Church and the state have been constantly evolving with various forms of government, some of them controversial in retrospect. In its history, the Church has had to deal with various concepts and systems of governance, from the Roman Empire to the medieval divine right of kings, from nineteenth- and twentieth-century concepts of democracy and pluralism to the ...
Catholic diocese sues US government, worried some foreign-born priests might be forced to leave. GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO. August 31, 2024 at 8:21 AM.
Three Catholic priests have been elected to the House of Commons of Canada. Andrew Hogan was the first Catholic priest to serve as a Canadian Member of Parliament. First elected to represent the electoral district of Cape Breton—East Richmond , Nova Scotia , in the 1974 federal election , he was re-elected in 1979 but defeated in 1980 .
The Roman Catholic Church understands herself as a single polity whose supreme earthly authority is the Supreme Pontiff (Pope). In Anglicanism , the churches are autonomous, though the majority of members are organizationally united in the Anglican Communion , which has no governmental authority.