| | :::THC::: Allan Carlson, Ph.D.: Speeches: The Howard Center |
 | | From his birth to his death, each man is involved in a multiplicity of natural social structures outside of which he could neither live nor achieve his full development….Each of these groups possesses a specific organic unity; first of all, there is the family, the child’s natural place of growth. |
 | | The Christian Democrats view the (core) family as a privileged opportunity to implement their social…principles. They want the citizens to adapt their private lives to demanding interpersonal relationships. Family life, especially the traditional family life of a married couple with several children, is a first embodiment of such relationships in other sectors of society. |
 | | Following a tumultuous three years, Hitler abolished the Center Party in July 1933. Similarly, a Christian Democratic movement in Italy, called The Popular Party and organized in 1919 by the priest Don Luigi Stutzo, was declared illegal in 1925 by the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. |
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