The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
Churches should not be directly involved in politics.
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.
We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.
There is no one true church.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.