U.S. bishops Celebrate Heresy (Religious Liberty)
The Catholic Church teaches the Social Kingship of Christ the Conciliar Church teaches Religious Liberty which is a Masonic principle. This is utterly offensive to Christ for He is the King of all nations and does not share a platform with any false religion. The Americanist heresy was brought into Vatican II by the U.S. Bishops (heretics). You will notice the praise for the rights of man (FreeMasonry). What about the rights of God?
As they do every year, the United
States Catholic Bishops have taken a stand for religious freedom through
a campaign called Fortnight for Freedom from June 21-July 4.
Around the United States, each diocese organized events to promote the
importance of defending religious freedom, not only in America, but
around the world.
MSGR. JOSEPH F. NAUMANN
Archdiocese of Kansas City (U.S.)
"The
United States I think has really been a beacon for religious liberty
and human rights throughout the world. Making sure, first of all, that
we're true to our founders view of what religious liberty really means
has an impact around the world too. It's a time when we sensitize
ourselves, even as we look at some of the things that threaten our
rights here in the United States to diminish them, it sensitizes us to
the fact that many other people suffer much more profoundly.”
With intense suffering plaguing many other countries, he said "Fortnight for Freedom” is an opportunity for American Catholics to engage and express their solidarity with others through one specific way: prayer.
MSGR. JOSEPH F. NAUMANN
Archdiocese of Kansas City (U.S.)
"Just
recently at our bishops' meeting for the U.S. in Indianapolis, when we
were talking about these human rights issues, and religious liberty
throughout the world, our committee chairman responsible said that the
one thing that people all over the world ask for is for our prayers.
It's in that way that we show in the most fundamental level our
solidarity with everyone throughout the world.”
Since
these two weeks of organized prayer have ended, this does not mean that
the bishops have finished interceding for this cause so persecuted
Christians around the world can one day be free and enjoy religious
liberty.
Religious liberty contradicts Tradition
The years following Vatican II have shown
the truth of Leo XIII’s statement that religious liberty necessarily
leads to immorality. In formerly Catholic countries, it is not only
faith that has disappeared, but also Christian morality.
The declaration of Vatican II on religious liberty, Dignitatis Humanae (§2), affirms:This 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 publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits." (Walter M. Abbott, S.J., Editor, The Documents of Vatican II (New York: The America Press, 1966), pp. 678-79.)
What is noteworthy in this passage from Vatican II?
- First, Vatican II not only says that no one should be forced to believe (which the Church has always taught), but also claims that no one can be restrained from practicing the religion of his choice.
- Then, and this is paramount, Vatican II no longer speaks of tolerance alone, but actually recognizes a real natural right of the adepts of all religions not to be hindered in the practice of their religion.
- Finally, this right not only concerns practice in private, but also public worship and propagation of the religion. Thus Vatican II promotes something the Church always condemned previously.
Does Vatican II truly intend to speak of a genuine natural right of man (and not merely of a simple civil right)?
Unfortunately yes, Vatican II presents the right not to be impeded from acting in accordance with one’s conscience in matters religious as a genuine natural right. It explains that this right is based on “the very dignity of the human person” (and not on a positive juridical determination); consequently it is only upon this basis that religious liberty must also be recognized as a civil right (DH 2).The new Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms:
“The right to religious liberty is neither a moral license to adhere to error, nor a supposed right to error, 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.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, §2108).
Doesn’t Vatican II speak of “due limits” on this “right”?
Vatican II does mention “due limits” circumscribing religious liberty, but the nature of the limits is not clearly stated in the document. In paragraph 2, it seems to involve safeguarding public order; further on, paragraph 7 speaks of “the objective moral order,” which is better, but illusory and ultimately insufficient.Why is this mention of “the objective moral order” illusory?
Taken literally, the implication of limiting religious liberty to “the objective moral order” is that only the Catholic Church could enjoy unrestricted freedom of religion because she alone conserves the natural law in its entirety (Islam authorizes polygamy; the Protestants—and even the Eastern schismatics in some cases—allow divorce; etc.). But this conclusion obviously contradicts the rest of the text. For Vatican II, having set aside the obligations of strict natural law, the only restraining limit on religious freedom is public order. As long as the cult is not a cover for terrorist attacks, criminal networks, pedophilia, or some other infringement of “the rights of man,” everything must be authorized.Why should the mention of “the objective moral order” be considered insufficient?
Even interpreted strictly, this limitation of religious liberty to the “objective moral order” is inadequate because restricted to the natural order of things, thereby omitting consideration of the supernatural order. Such a conception of religious liberty fails to recognize the social kingship of our Lord Jesus Christ, the supernatural rights of His Church, and the supernatural end of man in the common good of the political order. It fails to consider that the false religions, by the mere fact that they keep souls from the Catholic Church, lead souls to hell. In a word, it is naturalism.To it can be applied what St. Pius X said about the separation of Church and State:
This thesis is an obvious negation of the supernatural order. It limits the action of the State to the pursuit of public prosperity during this life only, which is but the proximate object of political societies; and it occupies itself in no fashion (on the plea that this is foreign to it) with their ultimate object, which is man’s eternal happiness after this short life shall have run its course." St. Pius X, encyclical, Vehementer Nos (February 11, 1906), §3.
