SUBJECT: FAITH & RELIGIOUS LIBERTY!!!!!!!

FORTNIGHT FOR FREEDOM!!!!!!!

Day One -- June 21st, 2012 -- Memorial of St. Aloysuis Gonzaga

The Vatican Synod declares that the

human person has a right to religious freedom. This

freedom means that all men are to be immune from

coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups

and of any human power, in such wise that in matters

religious no one is to be forced to act in a manner

contrary to his own beliefs. Nor is anyone to be

restrained from acting in accordance with his own

beliefs, whether privately or publically, whether alone

or in association with others, within due limits.

The Synod further declares that the right to religious

freedom has its foundation in the very dignity

of the human person, as this dignity is known through

the revealed Word of God and by reason itself. This

right of the human person to religious freedom is to be

recognized in the constitutional law whereby society is

governed. Thus it is to become a civil right.

Declaration on Religious Liberty

(Dignitatis Humanae), no. 2

December 7, 1965

Read the entire meditation from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops here.

Blessings,

Papa Z.