Catholic Theocracy

Catholic Theocracy, sometimes shortened to CathTheo, is an authoritarian, culturally right, and an economically center ideology inhabiting the upper center political compass.

CathTheo seeks to have the values of the Catholic faith uphold as the law and to have a state very closely tied to the Catholic Church.

History

On 27th of February of the year 380 AD, the Edict of Thessalonica was issued by emperor Theodosius I, making Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire, outlawing all other religions and legalizing the prosecution of their followers, establishing the first de facto Catholic Theocracy in the world.

After the fall of the Roman Empire most of the Germanic tribes that previously practised Arian Christianity adopted Catholicism in order to ally themselves with the religious figures of the regions they were invading, leading to most of the former Western Roman Empire remaining a Catholic theocracy loyal to the Vicar of Christ in Rome, while the Eastern Roman Empire evolved into an Orthodox Christian Theocracy loyal to the Emperor of Byzantium.

The Catholic Church maintained various degrees of control across Western Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Perhaps the place where this rule was most dominant was in the Papal States - a territory in central Italy directly under the rule of the Papacy. In other parts of Catholic Europe, the control of the church varied depending on both place and time. On one hand, the church maintained a great deal of sway over secular rulers, and Catholicism was the official state religion of most Western European states until the Protestant Reformation, with the church able to enforce her own laws in Ecclesiastical courts alongside state courts (such as in the Inquisition). On the other hand the church often found itself in conflict with the various monarchies of Europe, most notably in the Investiture Controversy with the Holy Roman Emperors and the 'Babylonian Captivity' in France. The Papal States aside, assorted territories scattered across Europe were under the rule of prince-bishops, mostly located in the German territories.

The Papal states were dissolved in 1870 during the Unification Wars after Rome was captured and Italy was unified. But despite this, Vatican City was created in 1929 as a deal with the fascist government. Vatican city controlls less than a square kilometer of land. Depsite the small size of the only remaining catholic theocracy, Catholicism still has a lot of power due to having more than 1 billion followers.

How to Draw

Draw a ball.
Draw a pope hat.
Fill the hat in very light gray.
Draw an inverted T on the hat in light cream yellow.
Draw the Vatican flag.
1. Draw a yellow line vertically across the ball.
2. Fill the left side in yellow.
3. Draw 2 crossed keys in the right, one golden, the other silver.
4. Draw red threads tied the keys.
5. Draw a tiara on top of the keys.
Add the eyes, and you're done!

Relationships

Friends

Distributism - A friend of Leo XIII is a friend of mine.
Integralism - That's the right spirit.
Elective Monarchism - The Holy see's system.
Crusadism - Always ready to serve the Lord and retake Jerusalem.
Orthodox Theocracy - Betrayed me, but we are friends.

Frenemies

Christian Theocracy - Be more Catholic.
Jewish Theocracy - We ripped you off, technically, but you're not us.
State Oriental Orthodoxy - Be Catholic.
Reactionary Modernism - What, is this a troll?
Catholic Fascism - You may be a Catholic, but you are too hateful for my taste.
Person Dignity Theory - Same as the above. Why are you so keen on killing Buddhists?
Bonapartism - Thank you for restoring me in France, but did you have to invade the Papal States? ~~Also mate, did you just fucking crown yourself? You can't do that!~~

Heretics

Christian Socialism - Fake Christian.
Christian Communism - Fake Christian.
State Atheism - Atheists are banished to hell!
Islamic Theocracy - Jerusalem is mine! *Starts another crusade*
Esoteric Fascism - Pagan filth, Nazi traitor.
Anarcho-Syndicalism - Infidel, you must burn!
Satanic Theocracy - VADE RETRO SATANA!
Kleptocracy - On top of commandment #8, The HRE attempted to weaken me by selling clerical positions, and corruption inside me (which I later got rid of) caused them to show up.
Protestant Theocracy - Heretic!! Mary Tudor was right!
Pagan Theocracy - Not as bad as Esoteric Fascism, but still. Filthy Pagan.
Freemasonry - May God curse thou, Masonic heretics!
Eugenicism - Absolute abomination.
Insurrectionary Anarchism and Anonymous - Stop misusing the Guy Fawkes mask for your anti-statist goals.