Sunday, June 14, 2009

2Pet 2, 3 Their destruction does not sleep

(2Pet 2, 3) Their destruction does not sleep
[3] In their greed they will exploit you with fabrications, but from of old their condemnation has not been idle and their destruction does not sleep.
(CCC 2107) "If because of the circumstances of a particular people special civil recognition is given to one religious community in the constitutional organization of a state, the right of all citizens and religious communities to religious freedom must be recognized and respected as well" (DH 6 § 3). (CCC 2108) The right to religious liberty is neither a moral license to adhere to error, nor a supposed right to error (Cf. Leo XIII, Libertas praestantissimum 18; Pius XII AAS 1953, 799), but rather a natural right of the human person to civil liberty, i.e., immunity, within just limits, from external constraint in religious matters by political authorities. This natural right ought to be acknowledged in the juridical order of society in such a way that it constitutes a civil right (Cf. DH 2). (CCC 2109) The right to religious liberty can of itself be neither unlimited nor limited only by a "public order" conceived in a positivist or naturalist manner (Cf. Pius VI, Quod aliquantum (1791) 10; Pius IX, Quanta cura 3). The "due limits" which are inherent in it must be determined for each social situation by political prudence, according to the requirements of the common good, and ratified by the civil authority in accordance with "legal principles which are in conformity with the objective moral order" (DH 7 § 3).

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