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According to Paul E. Sigmund, Catholic social and political thought "became a major source of democratic theory" in Latin America as well as Europe. [2] Some of the earliest important political parties were: Conservative Catholic Party of Switzerland – 1848; Catholic Party (Belgium) – 1869; Centre Party (Germany) – with origins in 1870
The Democratic Party ran Al Smith, the first Catholic presidential candidate by a major party, in 1928, and, except when the ticket was headed by a Southern candidate, has nominated a Catholic for president or vice president in every election since 1960 except for 1988 (where a Greek Orthodox, Michael Dukakis, was the presidential nominee).
Christian democratic parties are political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social teaching and Neo-Calvinist theology.
Politicians of Catholic political parties (63 C, 20 P) A. Austrian People's Party (1 C, 1 P) C. Christian democratic parties in Belgium (11 P)
Overall, the party was held together by the Catholic faith and anti-socialist and anti-liberal tendencies. [191] In Ireland, Fianna Fáil was founded as a Catholic political party. [192] Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, and Labor would all be avenues for Christian democracy in the post-war period. [193]
On one side are more centrist or measured voices, like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ statement expressing concern about Trump’s early executive actions harming “the most ...
American anti-Catholicism originally derived from the theological heritage of the Protestant Reformation and the European wars of religion (16th–18th century). Because the Reformation was based on an effort to correct what was perceived as the errors and excesses of the Catholic Church, its proponents formed strong positions against the Roman clerical hierarchy in general and the Papacy in ...
Today, far-right parties like the AfD seek to embrace a different model that rejects political integration in favor of an economic union along the lines of earlier, postwar integration.