A Igreja Católica: forma de governo e regime político

Abstract

The present article aims to explain to people interested on international law the form of government and the political regime of the Catholic Church, and this way make clear two consequences. The first is that what you affirm about these two aspects of the Catholic Church you also do about the Supreme Authority of the Catholic Church, i.e., the Pope and the Holly See. Secondly, the Supreme Authority of the Catholic Church and the Holly See are two expressions with the same meaning, i.e., they express the same reality or, in other words, the Pope, or in canonical terms, the Roman Pontiff.