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Democracy and Tyranny

The Catholic understanding of the State and Politics

Rourke, Thomas R.

What's the difference between different forms of government? And what does the Catholic Church teach?

The Church’s teaching authority has for some time now addressed the question of the better ordering of human societies, and which form of government best promotes human flourishing. Grounded in the Church’s social doctrine, this book intends to clarify the central and defining features of the two commonly found forms of government: democracy, and its opposite, tyranny.