Catholic church and politicians

[TheBreak]

English is not my first language, I’m sorry for any misspellings

I thought that the Baptist church is against mixing religion and government until I watched interview with the son of Belly Graham when he said that America is turning God away and that “our politicians” are turning away God and when he talked about how he support Mitt Romney and thin that Donald Trump would be great for president and that Obama can solve the “birth certificate” issue so easy by showing it. I was like “What the heck!!” When Jesus was asked some question about politician issue he answered them one of the greatest answers I’ve ever heard of, he didn’t pick up some politicians and said this is better and that would be much better…etc.

So, I wonder, what is the point of view of the catholic church when it comes to politician ?

 

[Gorgias]

So, I wonder, what is the point of view of the catholic church when it comes to politician ?

The Catholic Church addresses issues, not politicians, so it doesn’t take a stand on any particular person. If an issue exists that deals with faith and morals, you can bet that the Church has a point of view that it expresses!

 

[dmar198]

English is not my first language, I’m sorry for any misspellings

I thought that the Baptist church is against mixing religion and government until I watched interview with the son of Belly Graham when he said that America is turning God away and that “our politicians” are turning away God and when he talked about how he support Mitt Romney and thin that Donald Trump would be great for president and that Obama can solve the “birth certificate” issue so easy by showing it. I was like “What the heck!!” When Jesus was asked some question about politician issue he answered them one of the greatest answers I’ve ever heard of, he didn’t pick up some politicians and said this is better and that would be much better…etc.

So, I wonder, what is the point of view of the catholic church when it comes to politician ?

The answer to your question is in the official Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, published by the Vatican, paragraphs 424-427. Here is the text: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY

a. Autonomy and independence

1. Although the Church and the political community both manifest themselves in visible organizational structures, they are by nature different because of their configuration and because of the ends they pursue. The Second Vatican Council solemnly reaffirmed that, “in their proper spheres, the political community and the Church are mutually independent and self-governing”. The Church is organized in ways that are suitable to meet the spiritual needs of the faithful, while the different political communities give rise to relationships and institutions that are at the service of everything that is part of the temporal common good. The autonomy and independence of these two realities is particularly evident with regards to their ends.

The duty to respect religious freedom requires that the political community guarantee the Church the space needed to carry out her mission. For her part, the Church has no particular area of competence concerning the structures of the political community: “The Church respects the legitimate autonomy of the democratic order and is not entitled to express preferences for this or that institutional or constitutional solution”, nor does it belong to her to enter into questions of the merit of political programmes, except as concerns their religious or moral implications.

b. Cooperation

1. The mutual autonomy of the Church and the political community does not entail a separation that excludes cooperation. Both of them, although by different titles, serve the personal and social vocation of the same human beings. The Church and the political community, in fact, express themselves in organized structures that are not ends in themselves but are intended for the service of man, to help him to exercise his rights fully, those inherent in his reality as a citizen and a Christian, and to fulfil correctly his corresponding duties. The Church and the political community can more effectively render this service “for the good of all if each works better for wholesome mutual cooperation in a way suitable to the circumstances of time and place”.
2. The Church has the right to the legal recognition of her proper identity. Precisely because her mission embraces all of human reality, the Church, sensing that she is “truly and intimately linked with mankind and its history”, claims the freedom to express her moral judgment on this reality, whenever it may be required to defend the fundamental rights of the person or for the salvation of souls.

The Church therefore seeks: freedom of expression, teaching and evangelization; freedom of public worship; freedom of organization and of her own internal government; freedom of selecting, educating, naming and transferring her ministers; freedom for constructing religious buildings; freedom to acquire and possess sufficient goods for her activity; and freedom to form associations not only for religious purposes but also for educational, cultural, health care and charitable purposes.

1. In order to prevent or attenuate possible conflicts between the Church and the political community, the juridical experience of the Church and the State have variously defined stable forms of contact and suitable instruments for guaranteeing harmonious relations. This experience is an essential reference point for all cases in which the State has the presumption to invade the Church’s area of action, impairing the freedom of her activity to the point of openly persecuting her or, vice versa, for cases in which church organizations do not act properly with respect to the State.