The Church is a policy stakeholder in the public realm, whether one likes it or not. Moreover, it could be proposed for the sake of discussion that certain aspects of democratic thought, is fundamentally incompatible with some basic tenets of Catholicism. An important element in democratic theory is the belief in the sovereignty and auto-nomy of the individual. The individual is supreme. In a democracy, the addressee of the law are themselves the law-makers.
Christian humanism is totally and absolutely at odds with atheistic humanism.
It is the product of a free market of ideas. Everyone who is of the truth, listens and hears Him. It is this Magisterium's task to preserve God's people from deviations and defections and to guarantee them the objective possibility of professing the true faith without error. Thus, the pastoral duty of the Magisterium is aimed at seeing to it that the People of God abides in the truth that liberates. To fulfill this service, Christ endowed the Church's shepherds with the charism of infallibility in matters of faith and morals.