The first Catholic Party in Belgium was established in 1869 as the Federation of Catholic Circles and Conservative Associations (French: Fédération des Cercles catholiques et des Associations conservatrices; Dutch: Verbond van Katholieke Kringen en der Conservatieve Verenigingen).

The Catholic Party, under leader Charles Woeste, gained an absolute majority in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1884, and retained it until 1918. The Belgian Chamber of Representatives (Dutch: de Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers, French: la Chambre des Représentants) is one of the two chambers of the Belgian Federal Parliament. ...

In 1921, the party became the Catholic Union, and from 1936 the Catholic Block. After the Second World War, the party officially severed its ties with the Roman Catholic Church. In 1968, the party divided along linguistic lines, forming the French language Parti Social Chrétien and the Dutch language Christelijke Volkspartij. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church (see terminology below) is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins to the original Christian community founded by Jesus Christ and led by the Twelve Apostles, in particular Saint Peter. ... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... The Humanist Democratic Centre (French: Centre démocrate humaniste or cdH) is a Belgian Francophone christian democratic political party in Wallonia. ... Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by around 22 million people, mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium, but also by smaller groups of speakers in parts of France and several former Dutch colonies. ... Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD&V) (Christian Democratic and Flemish) is a political party in Belgium, formerly called Christelijke Volkspartij (CVP) (Christian Peoples Party). ...