Concordat Watch is an online resource containing dozens of concordat translations, (most appearing in English for the first time), as well as related documents, general background articles and expert commentary.
What are concordats? Concordats are international treaties with the Vatican that may range from granting little more than diplomatic recognition to a legally binding commitment to observe key aspects of Vatican doctrine and to subsidise it in various ways. There has been much criticism of concordats.
The site is about temporal power. Religious doctrines only come into it if and when it is the state which tries to get people to obey them. Thus Concordat Watch includes material on church-state separation, that is to say, on political, but not religious secularism.
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