Christian Democracy

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• major treatment  (in  conservatism (political philosophy): Christian Democracy;

  By the end of the 19th century, industrialization had created a large and turbulent working class whose increasing involvement in politics gave it a powerful voice. All Christian churches, but especially the Roman Catholic Church, faced anticlerical attacks from liberal reformers on the one hand and working-class socialists on the other. The Catholic church responded, notably under Pope Leo...

  in  conservatism (political philosophy): Conservatism since the turn of the 20th century;

  ...Europe, since Soviet power had extirpated all conservative political organizations in eastern Europe. To the chagrin of western European socialists, conservative parties—or, more commonly, Christian Democratic parties in which various moderate and conservative elements had coalesced—began to win elections in West Germany and other countries. After the defeat of the fascist...

  in  conservatism (political philosophy): Continental Europe )

  ...represented by two or more parties, ranging from the liberal centre to the moderate and extreme right. The three types of conservative party were the agrarian (particularly in Scandinavia), the Christian Democratic, and those parties allied closely with big business. These categories are very general and are not mutually exclusive.

• European history  (in  history of Europe: Planning the peace)

  No less innovative, if less radical, were the Christian Democrat parties springing up or being revived: the Christian Democrats in Italy, the Christian Democratic Union in Germany, the Dutch People’s Movement in the Netherlands, the Popular Republican Movement in France. At that time, most such Roman Catholic parties had a more left-of-centre tone than was later the case.

• Latin American history  (in  history of Latin America: Christian Democracy)

  A new feature since World War II was the appearance of a number of Christian Democratic parties, which offered a program of moderate reform inspired by Roman Catholic social teachings. Most were small splinter groups, but Christian Democrats eventually achieved power in Venezuela, El Salvador, and Chile. In Venezuela they alternated with the social democratic AD and in their policies became...

• opposition by Pius X  (in  Saint Pius X (pope))

  Although he took the first tentative steps to improve relations with liberal Italy and allowed Catholics for the first time to vote in Italian national elections, Pius led the reaction against Christian Democracy because he could not tolerate the idea of some Catholics making their social work a matter independent of the hierarchy and conducting it in an increasingly political direction. He...

• support by Frei Montalva  (in  Eduardo Frei (president of Chile))

  Chilean politician and the first Christian Democratic president of Chile (1964–70).

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