Thank you Jerry. I want to relate to people that this is the perfect understanding that I have been looking for. I have gone on 3 traditionalist forums, and have over 3000 views on the threads, and no one, no one, will admit that it is a basic tenet of Christian Religious belief. Thank you. That’s pretty much all I have been looking for, is someone who will say, yes Eli, Religious Liberty is philosophically necessary, it is a basic tenet of our Religion, it’s in the Catechism, it’s taught by the Church, and I will relate even MORE.
When I was discussing these things in my diocese in 2001, we asked the Priests how we could have liberty in our religious decisions, and they gave us how the answer on how everything we do is Religious, and everything we do is liberty. We asked for a little more history on that, and Bishop Doran came to our High School, which is a Catholic High School in Rockford, Illinois, and he said a few brief words, about it, and that’s it. We all accepted, and we got to hear history, of why the Church teaches it at this time, and we had to pay a small fee for him to check the archives in his diocese, and someday I might relate that story of how we have come to accept this doctrine in our Church, from the perspective of our Diocese, but not tonight. There were several events that happened, one in 1904, and another 1941, and if you ask old Priests, and give them enough money to jog their memory, or look in their journals for you, they will tell you, at least in my Diocese, that Religious Liberty is basically free will, applied to the words Religious Liberty.
Religious Liberty is easy, and no traditionalist on the three forums that I wrote on, was willing to admit that, basically, because all they are, is Religious Liberty anti, and then they blame in Pope Saint John XXIII. It has been frustrating.
Will anyone else admit that it is a basic tenet of our, and speak a little bit about it here, especially any Priests watching, or anyone else, please? Can anyone else speak up in favor of Religious Liberty, please? I am just hunting for a little good will, online, because we already have it in our diocese, as like, every one of you do too. Please say something, here. I’m telling you people, I have been posting about religious liberty for 3 weeks, and no one will admit it is true except here.