Correct. An element of Catholics still have a problem recognizing that not all governments justify blind faith in them.
Ancient history, Monarchies are as bad (or worse) as Communists.
We inherited our system of laws from a monarchy. Notwithstanding the palace intrigue and the imperial overreach that get all the attention from historians, there were also good Christian monarchs who desired their own salvation and that of their kingdom and laid out their judicial policies accordingly. In a republic you’d better hope you have a solid legal system already in place, because you will not be able to establish one if you lack it. Instead, you get a perpetual battle of competing private interests regarding... everything! ... or at least people think so — and so nothing can become settled or regarded as objective, “everything is politics.” Even a simple, self-evident social good like “loser pays” (to give an example) cannot be instituted because tunnel-visioned private interests are far too entrenched, and people are too skeptical about anyone who would dare to utter a far-reaching philosophical concept (like the selfsame “loser pays”) in a public setting. Everything always reduces to, “Who’s paying you to say that?” So it’s foolhardy to invest overly much hope in enlightenment republics.