The Catholic Church is a religion. Not a political group.
Wrong Again.............The Roman Catholic church has always been in bed with Governments....their entire History attests to this.
....Of recent is Pope Francis/Vatican reached an agreement with the 'Palestinian Liberation Organization' and the the 'Palestinian government' over the recognition of Palestine as a state.".....
"..Signing the 'Concordat between the Vatican and the Nazis', 20 July 1933. As the Nazi Franz von Papen, said,... "The Third Reich is the first world power which not only acknowledges but also puts into practice the high principles of the papacy."...thus becoming a political arm of the government.
...A deal with the Catholic Church and Pope Pius XI that gave Mussolini the official title of the ruler of Italy, called the Lateran Accords.....