Church and State: A Conflicting Collaboration

Church and State in East Germany

Political Religion and Church-State Issues

In this paper we examine public attitudes on the role of religion in the American political process, as well as some public policy implications of those attitudes. Although the current American legal regime may lean toward strict separationism, the political system has seen renewed religious activism over the past three decades. Historically, religious involvement in American politics has been ...

Competing Enlightenment Visions of the Separation of Church and State

Church-State Separation, Healthcare Policy, and Religious Liberty

this paper sketches a framework for the separation of church and state and, with the framework in view, indicates why a government’s maintaining such separation poses challenges for balancing two major democratic ideals: preserving equality before the law and protecting liberty, including religious liberty. the challenge is particularly complex where healthcare is either provided or regulated b...

On the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World

1. The Church, expert in humanity, has a perennial interest in whatever concerns men and women. In recent times, much reflection has been given to the question of the dignity of women and to women's rights and duties in the different areas of civil society and the Church. Having contributed to a deeper understanding of this fundamental question, in particular through the teaching of John Paul I...