The Political Catholic

Religious Freedom Part II In my last post I spoke about the First amendment and the importance of the separation of church and state.  Today I am going to write about why that is so important and why religious leaders are mistakenly attempting to erode that separation in their defense of religion.   In 1962 Pope John XXIII called an Ecumenical council - Vatican II.  Out of that council came many of the changes that we now recognize as ordinary in the Catholic church.  One of those changes occurred in a document called Dignitatis Humanae - or the Declaration of the Religious Freedom. This document was radical in its approach to the theology of Religious freedom.   Dignitatis Humanae professed that:  “A sense of the dignity of the human person has been impressing itself more and more deeply on the consciousness of contemporary man, and the demand is increasingly made that men should act on their own judgment, enjoying and making us...