Catholic 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.
Positions
This catalogue answers a narrow question: what does Restore Europe hold on this issue? It does not replace the manifesto. The manifesto sets out the worldview; this sets out searchable, topic-by-topic positions.
Where Catholic moral teaching is clear, Restore Europe generally adopts it as the moral baseline, and states civil-law implementation separately. One departure is recorded explicitly: on capital punishment Restore Europe takes the older traditional allowance for exceptional cases rather than the contemporary abolitionist position.
The catalogue distinguishes the constitutional order Restore Europe seeks from European law as it currently stands. Several positions — on nationality, on deprivation of citizenship, on speech, on the public standing of religion and on capital punishment — would require constitutional or treaty change before they could be enacted in particular European states. Where that is so, the entry says it.
Version 0.2 settles the questions version 0.1 had left open: the European institutional relationship, asylum, deportation, wages, taxation, pensions, housing, labour representation, digital identity and currency, biometric surveillance, genetic engineering, sentencing, the energy mix and every standing question of foreign policy. Where a v0.2 formulation revised an earlier entry, the newer text governs.
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.
8 of 89 positions match.
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The place of religion in public life, and the moral questions law cannot avoid.
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.
Restore Europe holds that human life must be protected from conception, and that elective direct abortion should be prohibited.
Restore Europe opposes direct euthanasia and assisted suicide, supports palliative care, and allows the refusal of extraordinary or disproportionate treatment.
Restore Europe supports the complete legal prohibition of prostitution and its commercial facilitation, with exit support for those leaving it.
Restore Europe supports keeping recreational narcotics, including recreational cannabis, illegal, with heavier penalties for traffickers than for dependent users.
Alcohol remains lawful for adults in moderate use. Restore Europe opposes drunkenness, abuse and conduct that harms others.
Gambling may remain lawful in limited adult forms, strictly regulated against addiction, fraud and exploitation.
Unbelief, criticism and theological argument remain lawful. Deliberate desecration of the sacred may be prohibited.