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

FORTNIGHT FOR FREEDOM!!!!!!!

Day Two-- June 22nd, 2012 -- Memorial of Sts. John Fisher, Bishop and Martyr and Thomas More, Martyr

It is in accordance with their dignity as persons—

that is, being endowed with reason and free

will and therefore privileged to bear personal responsibility—

that all men should be at once impelled by

nature and also bound by a moral obligation to seek

the truth, especially religious truth. They are also

bound to adhere to the truth, once it is known, and

to order their whole lives in accord with the demands

of truth.

However, men cannot discharge these obligations

in a manner in keeping with their own nature

unless they enjoy immunity from external coercion as

well as psychological freedom. Therefore, the right to

religious freedom has its foundation, not in the subjective

disposition of the person, but in his very nature.

In consequence, the right to this immunity continues to

exist even in those who do not live up to their obligation

of seeking the truth and adhering to it. Nor is the

exercise of this right to be impeded, provided that the

just requirements of public order are observed.

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.