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Christian vision that places the universal Church above nations, races and borders, in the line of Paul of Tarsus and Augustine, joining intense faith, traditional morals and spiritual authority with brotherhood among all peoples.
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I want a universal Christian commonwealth, united by the Church and moral law, above borders, races and national interests.
Political topics
Leans further toward religious than 95% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Representation, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
The apostle who carried Christianity into the Greco-Roman world, Paul established salvation by grace rather than Mosaic law, waived circumcision for gentiles and preached submission to constituted authority.
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A city-state governed by the Holy See, the Vatican combines religious sovereignty, an absolute elective monarchy, and clerical administration, functioning as the institutional center of the Catholic Church and a global diplomatic actor.
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A young semi-presidential democracy, Timor-Leste won independence from Indonesia in 2002 after 24 years of occupation, is Catholic-majority, uses the US dollar, depends on its oil sovereign fund and joined ASEAN in 2025.
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Medieval alliance of autonomous cantons formed from the 1291 Pact, the Old Swiss Confederacy operated without a strong central power, combining direct democracy in local assemblies (Landsgemeinde), independent peasant militias, and weak joint military/diplomatic coordination among the cantons.
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Ideological proximity
Closest within Center
Centrist current that applies Christian values to democratic politics, defending the social market economy, family, solidarity, and the common good as the foundation of free and pluralist institutions.
Doctrine of Christian inspiration that advocates the wide distribution of property and small-scale production, opposing both monopoly capitalism and state socialism in favor of autonomous communities.
Branch that unites conservatism and environmental protection, defending the preservation of nature as part of the tradition and heritage to be passed on to future generations, with prudence toward change.
Closest in other spectrums
Revival of Thomas Aquinas's thought from 1879 (Leo XIII), with Maritain and Gilson. It grounds politics in natural law, the common good and subsidiarity, favoring mixed government, property with a social function and just war, under Catholic faith.
Branch that combines the defense of workers and social justice with Christian values, promoting labor rights, solidarity, and social protection within democracy, inspired by the social doctrine of the Church.
Social doctrine of the Catholic Church, combining traditionalist morality and defense of life with concern for social justice, subsidiarity and worker dignity, under the hierarchical authority of the papacy and canon law.
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Stalinist SocialismRadical Left30%