#481 The Controversies Around Religious Freedom - Michael Lofton
Catholic Answers Focus
The Second Vatican Council's Argument for Religious Liberty
The document Dignitatis Humani is not arguing everybody has the right in a moral sense, for example, to say no to God. But it is arguing that in a legal sense, you have the right to a great variety of responses to God. So it's saying there's only one true religion. It's only in the Catholic church and there's a duty on the church is part to spread it. They do not have liberty of conscience. All they have is just freedom from immunity or freedom from coercion within due limits.
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