Papal Geopolitics: Imagining the Religious, Imagining the Secular

The Paper explores the geopolitical imagination of the Catholic Church. From the perspective or critical geopolitics, the Paper analyzes the speeches and other "textual units" produced by the three most recent Popes, showing how the construe the secular space and the relation between the secular order and the transcendental one. While differences are clearly visible between their mental maps and the ways in which they conceive the world, they share some uniquely Catholic elements which set the Church´s imagination(s) apart from the geopolitical discourses of other actors, both secular and religious.