A concordat is an agreement or treaty between the Holy See of
the Catholic Church and a sovereign state that deals with the
recognition and privileges of the Catholic Church in a
particular country and with secular matters that impact on
church interests, such as taxation as well as the right of a
state to influence the selection of bishops within its
territory.. Although for a time after the Second Vatican
Council, which ended in 1965, the term 'concordat' was dropped,
it reappeared with the Polish Concordat of 1993 and the
Portuguese Concordat of 2004. A different model of relations
between the Vatican and various states is still evolving (see
e.g. Petkoff 2007) in the wake of the Second Vatican Council's
Declaration on Religious Liberty, Dignitatis Humanae. Church-
State dichotomy  ||This article needs additional citations for
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