Questions tagged [politics]
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Is a Catholic who belongs to a political party that supports sins in its party platform excommunicated?
Is a Catholic who belongs to a political party that supports sins in its party platform excommunicated?
Before Vatican II, a Catholic belonging to the Communist Party (or any other association ...
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Does voting for a pro-abortion candidate constitute formal cooperation in his crime of promoting child killing?
According to Catholic moral theologians, does voting for a pro-abortion candidate constitute formal cooperation in the politician's crime of promoting child killing?
My question is very similar to &...
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To what extent are Jehovah’s Witnesses to exercise political neutrality in matters of employment?
Jehovah’s Witnesses take a neutral stance in politics and in the military. Participating in politics or becoming a member of the armed forces is a serious offence that can result in a baptised ...
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Why hasn't the Republic of Ireland returned Anglican church properties to the Catholic Church?
I know that some key fighters for Irish independence were Anglican, and that Ireland has had an ambivalent relationship with Catholicism in modern times. That said, has there been any serious effort ...
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What is the biblical justification for a monarchy?
Is there any biblical justification for a monarchy in either the New or Old Testament of the bible (ie a system of government with a monarch at the head) and if so where in the bible do we see this?
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Was Jesus a Zealot? What can we learn from Reza Aslan's account?
The Book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan argues that Jesus was actually a Zealot, a Jewish revolutionary attempting to challenge Roman rule. Christians will ...
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What was the Cathars' / Albigensians' political philosophy?
What was the Cathars' or Albigensians' political philosophy? Was it the same as the Manicheans'? Who were these movements' prominent political philosopher-theologians?
All these dualists thought that ...
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Is a lawfully-constituted civil society divinely-instituted?
According to Catholic theologians, is every lawfully-constituted civil authority divinely-instituted like the Church (Mt. 16:18-19)?
Pope Leo XIII, in his 1881 encyclical on the origin of civil power, ...
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Can a Christian be a Conservative? [closed]
My friend is a very strong Progressive Christian and I am a somewhat Conservative Christian. He said that I contradict myself, calling myself a Conservative and a Christian. He contends that ...
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Has any monk or nun ever left a monastery to be married to a king or queen?
Has any monk or nun in Church history ever left a monastery to be married to a king or queen?
St. Margaret of Hungary, according to Short Lives of the Dominican Saints p. 16, almost did:
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Does Romans 13:1-2 contradict the actions of civil disobedience taken by the apostles?
Romans 13:1-2 (ESV):
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists ...
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Can a Catholic be an Anarchist?
Anarchy is the belief that the state in all its forms should be abolished (by rebellion or other means) and replaced entirely by groups that freely associate with each other.
What doctrines or ...
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Does the State have the right to correct the Church in theological matters?
Did any Catholic theologians think the State ever has the right to correct the Church in theological matters?
For example, when Pope John XXII (r. 1316-1334) denied the then-material (i.e., not-yet-...
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Theologians who compared the tripartite division of civil authority to the Trinity?
Pope Pius XI, encyclical Quas primas (1925) instituting the feast of Christ the King, says that the "lordship of Christ […] consists […] in a threefold [tripartite] power which is essential to ...
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What Parts of Libertarianism are Incompatible With Catholicism?
Full Libertarianism is generally accepted as incompatible with Catholic teaching. What parts are generally opposed to Catholicism and the Catechism?
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