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To: sinkspur
The republican form of government has nothing to do with the Social Kingship of Christ or the repression of religious error which is injurious to the common good and is not opposed to it.
14. Various political governments have succeeded one another in France during the last century, each having its own distinctive form: the Empire, the Monarchy, and the Republic. By giving one's self up to abstractions, one could at length conclude which is the best of these forms, considered in themselves; and in all truth it may be affirmed that each of them is good, provided it lead straight to its end—that is to say, to the common good for which social authority is constituted; and finally, it may be added that, from a relative point of view, such and such a form of government may be preferable because of being better adapted to the character and customs of such or such a nation. In this order of speculative ideas, Catholics, like all other citizens, are free to prefer one form of government to another precisely because no one of these social forms is, in itself, opposed to the principles of sound reason nor to the maxims of Christian doctrine. (Leo XIII, Au milieu des sollicitudes)

But the Declaration on Religious Liberty did recognize the value of the traditional teaching on the Kingship of Christ, as I have pointed out above.

18 posted on 04/05/2004 8:08:06 PM PDT by gbcdoj
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To: gbcdoj
I'm not sure what you're arguing here. This last post is rational; your previous post is full of nonsense about making Catholicism the state religion.

I don't want that. If we get a Baptist President, he'll change the state religion.

20 posted on 04/05/2004 8:13:12 PM PDT by sinkspur (Adopt a dog or a cat from an animal shelter! It will save one life, and may save two.)
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