The "tendency of states to become despotic" is the consequence of man's inward tendency to sin. Therefore, the antidote to the "despotic state" is not democracy, and its institutions, or the defense of religious freedom (which in itself is good), but in the proclamation of the Gospel and the conversion of souls. The search for the common good (which is God, socially proclaimed) is not to be confused with fighting for democracy or for "civil liberties". Those are not values for us. The real way to promote the common good is simply to concretely give your life to Jesus and transform it into a living proclamation of the Gospel.
It obviously doesn't. If you actually believe the divine and catholic faith is the one true faith needed for salvation, you will not tolerate any false religion being practised or promoted in public.
@@jaspermay5813 For the time we will always have those of other religious beliefs and those that doubt ours. A system which punishes them for holding such beliefs wouldn't grant the grace we had from our spiritual leaders when we had doubts. I hope in the future we can all be together in the one true faith, but punishment or ignorance of others will not solve that. More like a gentle push.
@@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039 That's just modernism and false charity. Have you read the Syllabus of Errors? Religious 'liberty' has been condemned. Spiritual leaders should not tolerate pertinacious doubt concerning any Catholic dogma either. It's called heresy, and it's worse than murder because it kills not just lives but eternal souls. A just government will not allow absolutely anyone to teach or promote absolutely whatever comes to their darkened minds.
@@jaspermay5813 "A just government will not allow absolutely anyone to teach or promise absolutely whatever comes to their darkened minds." Essentially, the role of the state in proclaiming the Gospel is to positively favor only the Catholic Church, not to limit the expression of false beliefs. The limitation of expression of false beliefs is only possible for the state accidentally, when this expression affects the common good, as would be the social unrest caused by the installation of a mosque in a totally and fervently Catholic country. What the principle of religious freedom enshrines is this: every restrictive action by the state must aim at defending the common good (and not exactly the faith, which belongs to the Church). That is why the state can never oppose the Church and its mission (on the contrary, it must favor it), but only false beliefs, to the extent that their expression harms the common good.
@@leonardovieira4445 All false beliefs harm the common good. Pope Leo XIII, Libertas (# 21-23), June 20, 1888: "Men have a right freely and prudently to propagate throughout the State what things soever are true and honorable, so that as many as possible may possess them; but *lying opinions, than which no mental plague is greater, and vices which corrupt the heart and moral life should be diligently repressed by public authority,* lest they insidiously work the ruin of the State." Pope Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors (# 77), December 8, 1864: "In this age of ours it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be the only religion of the state, to the exclusion of all other cults whatsoever." - *Condemned.* Same (# 78): "Hence in certain regions of Catholic name, it has been laudably sanctioned by law that men immigrating there be allowed to have public exercises of any form of worship of their own." - *Condemned.* Search for Most Holy Family Monastery.
The "tendency of states to become despotic" is the consequence of man's inward tendency to sin. Therefore, the antidote to the "despotic state" is not democracy, and its institutions, or the defense of religious freedom (which in itself is good), but in the proclamation of the Gospel and the conversion of souls.
The search for the common good (which is God, socially proclaimed) is not to be confused with fighting for democracy or for "civil liberties". Those are not values for us. The real way to promote the common good is simply to concretely give your life to Jesus and transform it into a living proclamation of the Gospel.
How does religious liberty fit into a Catholic society with a foundation structured by the minds of St. Pope Pius X and Pope Leo XIII?
It obviously doesn't. If you actually believe the divine and catholic faith is the one true faith needed for salvation, you will not tolerate any false religion being practised or promoted in public.
@@jaspermay5813 For the time we will always have those of other religious beliefs and those that doubt ours. A system which punishes them for holding such beliefs wouldn't grant the grace we had from our spiritual leaders when we had doubts. I hope in the future we can all be together in the one true faith, but punishment or ignorance of others will not solve that. More like a gentle push.
@@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039 That's just modernism and false charity. Have you read the Syllabus of Errors? Religious 'liberty' has been condemned. Spiritual leaders should not tolerate pertinacious doubt concerning any Catholic dogma either. It's called heresy, and it's worse than murder because it kills not just lives but eternal souls. A just government will not allow absolutely anyone to teach or promote absolutely whatever comes to their darkened minds.
@@jaspermay5813 "A just government will not allow absolutely anyone to teach or promise absolutely whatever comes to their darkened minds."
Essentially, the role of the state in proclaiming the Gospel is to positively favor only the Catholic Church, not to limit the expression of false beliefs.
The limitation of expression of false beliefs is only possible for the state accidentally, when this expression affects the common good, as would be the social unrest caused by the installation of a mosque in a totally and fervently Catholic country.
What the principle of religious freedom enshrines is this: every restrictive action by the state must aim at defending the common good (and not exactly the faith, which belongs to the Church). That is why the state can never oppose the Church and its mission (on the contrary, it must favor it), but only false beliefs, to the extent that their expression harms the common good.
@@leonardovieira4445 All false beliefs harm the common good.
Pope Leo XIII, Libertas (# 21-23), June 20, 1888: "Men have a right freely and prudently to propagate throughout the State what things soever are true and honorable, so that as many as possible may possess them; but *lying opinions, than which no mental plague is greater, and vices which corrupt the heart and moral life should be diligently repressed by public authority,* lest they insidiously work the ruin of the State."
Pope Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors (# 77), December 8, 1864: "In this age of ours it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be the only religion of the state, to the exclusion of all other cults whatsoever." - *Condemned.*
Same (# 78): "Hence in certain regions of Catholic name, it has been laudably sanctioned by law that men immigrating there be allowed to have public exercises of any form of worship of their own." - *Condemned.*
Search for Most Holy Family Monastery.