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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT
- 421.
- “The Second Vatican Council committed the Catholic Church to the promotion of religious freedom.”
- Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Declaration Dignitatis Humanae, 1: AAS 58 (1966), 929.
- Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Declaration Dignitatis Humanae, 2: AAS 58 (1966), 930-931.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2106.
- Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Declaration Dignitatis Humanae, 3: AAS 58 (1966), 931-932.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2108.
- 422.
- “Freedom of conscience and religion ‘concerns man both individually and socially.’”
- 423.
- “Because of its historical and cultural ties to a nation, a religious community might be given special recognition on the part of the State. Such recognition must in no way create discrimination within the civil or social order for other religious groups.”
- Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Declaration Dignitatis Humanae, 6: AAS 58 (1966), 933-934.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2107.
- John Paul II, Message for the 1999 World Day of Peace, 5: AAS 91 (1999), 380-381.
- John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation Catechesi Tradendae, 14: AAS 71 (1979), 1289.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY - AUTONOMY AND INDEPENDENCE
- 424.
- “Although the Church and the political community both manifest themselves in visible organizational structures, they are by nature different because of their configuration and because of the ends they pursue.”
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY - COOPERATION
- 425.
- “The mutual autonomy of the Church and the political community does not entail a separation that excludes cooperation.”
- 426.
- “The Church has the right to the legal recognition of her proper identity.”
- 427.
- “In order to prevent or attenuate possible conflicts between the Church and the political community, the juridical experience of the Church and the State have variously defined stable forms of contact and suitable instruments for guaranteeing harmonious relations.”
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