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06-04-05, 02:22 PM
@The student
That is astonishingly naive. Of course the Roman Catholic Church is a political institution (as well, obviously, as a religious one). That is why it has a Secretary of State -- not the kind of official that a purely religious institution would have any use for. That is why it maintains diplomatic relations with numerous countries. That is why it has dogmatic teachings on such quintessentially political matters as freedom of opinion and expression. (See Quanta Cura and Syllabus of Errors.)
And of course the Roman Catholic Church is fascistic. As mentioned above, in the great ideological struggle of the twentieth century -- among communist tyranny, fascist tyranny, and representative-democratic freedom -- the Church allied itself squarely with fascist tyranny, because that is the ideology that most closely resembles its own.
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