Religious Freedom is our First Freedom
“Respect for this fundamental human right is, in fact, one of the essential conditions for peace, fraternity and harmony." - Pope Francis (as cited in CNSNews.com)
Fortnight for Freedom
June 21 - July 4 - 2014
FortNight4Freedom.org
[S]ome laws actually restrict freedom by shrinking the sacred space we need to live out our commitments to an authority higher than the state...
- Edward A. Morse, Professor of Law
[S]ome laws actually restrict freedom by shrinking the sacred space we need to live out our commitments to an authority higher than the state...
- Edward A. Morse, Professor of Law
Archbishop Kurtz discusses Religious Freedom - 2012 Message
Religious freedom is important not only in its own right but is also central to other human goods: it correlates with civil liberties, political liberties, press freedom, longevity of democracy, low levels of militarization and conflict, more physicians, and lower infant mortality...
Why Religious Freedom Must be a Top Priority - Paul Marshall, Hudson Institute
Go to the barricades for religious liberty: Christians are the most persecuted creed worldwide - Cardinal Timothy Dolan
In today’s world, religious freedom is more often affirmed than put into practice...It is often threatened, and not infrequently violated. The serious outrages against this fundamental right are a source of serious concern, and need to be confronted at the global level. Defending religious liberty and making it available for everyone...is everyone’s responsibility... - Pope Francis
The current disposition of religious freedom in the United States: The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights... - Declaration of Independence
Resources
- Updates
- The Gospel of Life Today
- John Paul II Messenger Press
- In the News and Commentary
- Education
- Faith
- Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs
- The CATHOLICISM Study Program - Fr. Robert Barron created this groundbreaking program as a thematic presentation of what Catholics believe and why.
- Logos Bible Software and Study Programs - It's our privilege to equip pastors, students, missionaries, teachers, and the church at large with tools that make Bible study easier and more accessible.
- Logos Bible Study - Logos Bible Study’s global classroom contains hundreds of hours of audio and video bible lessons with Dr. Bill Creasy.
- Pillars - Catechism of the Catholic Church: Not Just How to be Catholic…but Why to be Catholic.
- St. Paul Center for Biblical Studies
- United States Catholic Catechism for Adults (Audio Book)
- Family
- Politics
- Constitution 101 (Hillsdale College)
- Constitutional Literacy
- EWTN Library (Search keyword: politics)
- Google Scholar (Search keyword: faithful citizenship)
- Liberty Classroom - The history and economics they didn't teach you (Tom Woods).
- Political Party Quiz | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
- Religious Freedom (U.S. Department of State)
Become the Salt and Light of the World
- Law
- Alliance Defending Freedom
- The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
- Hudson Institute: Religious Freedom
- Pacific Justice Institute - Legal defense organization specializing in defense of religious freedom, parental rights...
- Leadership
- Greenleaf: Center for Servant Leadership - The measure of a servant-leader's progress is in the answers found to the following questions, "Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?"
- Light of the World
- Catholics Come Home
- EWTN - Global Catholic Network
- Life Teen
- Salt and Light TV
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
- Xt3 - More than a Social Network
- Word on Fire
- Media
- Press
- Faithful Citizenship
- Joint Statement on "Supporting the Human Rights of Christians and Other Communities, particularly in the Middle East" at the 28th Session of the Human Rights Council (Geneva, 13 March 2015), 13.03.2015
- Radio
- Television
- Videos / Movies
- Faithful Citizenship
- The First Amendment in Five Minutes
- God in America: How Religious Liberty Shaped America (Available at NetFlix)
- How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization (Tom Woods)
- Mitt Romney with Raymond Arroyo (EWTN)
- What are American virtues? (In Depth: Bill Bennett)
"Government, even at its best, can never be more than an auxiliary in the development of character...We desperately need to recover a sense of the fundamental purpose of education, which is to engage in the architecture of souls. When a self-governing society ignores this responsibility, it does so at its peril" (William J. Bennett, Quantifying America's Decline, 1993).
- Political Participation
- "Participation in political life is not optional" (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops). Faithful Citizenship: A Matter of Conscience
- Imagine (CatholicVote.org)
- Forming Conscience for Faithful Citizenship (USCCB)
- Freedomworks.org
- Religious Liberties (EWTN)
- Stand Up for Religious Freedom
- Tips for Writing to Your Legislators (Colorado Catholic Conference)
- Track the United States Congress
- Quotes on Conscience and Religious Freedom
- Social Justice and What You Can Do
- American Catholics for Religious Freedom
- American Center for Law and Justice
- Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute
- Catholics for Religious Freedom
- Catholic Social Doctrine: Human Rights are Given, Not Taken
- Human Trafficking and Relief Services
- Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish: Social Justice Committee
- PreserveReligiousFreedom.org
- Stop Department of Health and Human Services Mandate (also known as the HHS Mandate)
- Tools to Promote Faithful Citizenship
- Voting
"Catholicism...It's your story." (Fr. Barron)
Published: 10.04.2012
Revised and Updated 03.21.2015
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