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The Cold War is over. Instead, in international politics, oppositions partly conditioned by religious-cultural factors have become more pronounced. Even the expectation that modernisation marginalises religion is falsified by the fact of actually existing societies which combine both. The most conspicuous example of such a society is the United States. The political significance of this is that the US has proved more competent in handling the latest Balkan crisis than the "old" European countries under the umbrella of the European Union. Adapted from the source document.

The concept of subsidiarity has been made prominent by the encyclical epistle Quadragesimo anno. However, during decades it rested marginal in politics of constitutional and international law. Meanwhile it is adopted by European and constitutional law discourse and given a politically eminent function. This article tries to tell the story. Adapted from the source document.

Political conflicts arising from incompatible religious denominations will promote progresses of rationality. The most effective medium to assimilate confessions and philosophies of life is not dialogues but the urgent need to make possible social coexistence of the incompatible. The constitutional maxim of this coexistence is unrestrained freedom of religion. Adapted from the source document.