ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at Church in its relation to the world. It concerns religious liberty, in the Catholic Church's view, is one of the first responsibilities of the State to enforce. There have of course been specifically Catholic parties, even in Western democracies: for example, the Centre Party in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century's and the Popular Party in Italy for a decade or so after the First World War. Any numbers of different topics fall under the general heading of Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and it would take another book to cover them, more information can be found in the bibliography. But at the time of writing two in particular stand out, migration, because of Europe's refugee crisis, and the environment. CST argues that it is human nature to belong to society, and that only in society can men and women achieve the fullness of being which God has intended for them.
