Agreed PolicyConstitutional, Religious and Moral Order
Blasphemy and Sacrilege
Unbelief, criticism and theological argument remain lawful. Deliberate desecration of the sacred may be prohibited.
Policy catalogueConstitutional, Religious and Moral Order
Agreed PolicyCatholic Confessional State
Restore Europe supports formal constitutional recognition of Catholicism as the principal public religion, and rejects the claim that the state can be morally or religiously neutral.
Position
Restore Europe supports a deeply embedded Catholic confessional political order. The state should formally recognize Catholicism as the principal public religion and should not claim moral or religious neutrality.
Policy
- Catholicism should receive formal constitutional recognition.
- Catholic moral teaching may inform public law and public institutions.
- The Church and the temporal state remain institutionally distinct, but the state is not metaphysically supreme.
- Catholic feast days, churches, symbols, processions, schools and public traditions should be protected.
- The state should cooperate with the Church on family, education, morality and social questions.
Principle
The state governs temporal affairs; the Church governs spiritual affairs; temporal authority remains subject to the higher moral order.
Limits and unresolved details
- Restore Europe does not support forced conversion.
- This model is not direct clerical government of ordinary state administration.
Implementation note
Implementation note
Formal establishment of a confessional order would require constitutional change in most European states, and is stated here as the order Restore Europe seeks rather than as a description of current law.
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State schools should have a Christian civilizational orientation rather than a secularist one.
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Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.