Mark R. Royce Livres

The book offers a thorough analysis of concordats, the treaties between the Vatican and various states from 1865 to 2022, exploring their relationship with canon and international law. It identifies 167 treaties and examines how the status of Roman Catholic canon law influences the ecclesiological norms of each concordat. Through case studies involving different political contexts, it reveals how these agreements reflect the Church's institutional role versus its adherence to values. The work contributes significantly to understanding the Catholic Church's international legal relations.

This book traces the connections between diverging postwar European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions to argue that supranational integration originates from Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism. Royce supports this thesis through a rigorously supported historical narrative, arguing that sixteenth-century theological conflicts generated seventeenth-century constitutional solutions, which ultimately effected the political choices both for and against integration during the twentieth century. Beginning with a survey of all ecclesiastical laws of seventeen West European countries and concluding with a full discussion of the Brexit vote and emerging alternatives to the EU, this examination of the political theology surrounding the European Union will appeal to all scholars of EU politics, modern theology, religious sociology, and contemporary European history.