The Reality of Human Freedom

The will is the appetite of human reason knowledge gives rise to love and love gives rise to deliberate free actions. Reason and freedom are embedded in eluctably in the human spiritual soul as constitutive of our human identity specifying ontologically what kind of reality we are. Since we are given being by God in each instance to be this kind of being a rational animal so too we are given by God in every moment to be a free human being who is substantially autonomous, says Pope Francis.