Integralism
Integralism holds that political authority should be ordered toward religious ends, with the state subordinate to or guided by the Church. The term also covers 20th-century movements in Portugal and Brazil that combined Catholic traditionalism with corporatist, authoritarian nationalism.
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Values subsidiarity, though historical movements favoured a strong central state.
Subordinates popular will to religious truth; often favoured authoritarian rule.
Accepts limits on liberty to uphold moral and religious order.
Split: Catholic universalism versus the nationalism of Portuguese and Brazilian movements.
No defining military doctrine.
Seeks a shared religious and national culture.
Draws on Catholic social teaching, balancing property with the common good.
Favours corporatist organisation of the economy.
Leans toward national economic protection.
Defined by wanting religion to shape law and the state.
Strongly traditional on family and morality.
Sceptical of technologies that challenge religious views of human nature.