Catholic Dads Headquarters: Religious Freedom

YOUCAT - Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church

As those first responsible for the education of their children, parents have the right to choose a school for them which corresponds to their own convictions. This right is fundamental. As far as possible parents have the duty of choosing schools that will best help them in their task as Christian educators. Public authorities have the duty of guaranteeing this parental right and of ensuring the concrete conditions for its exercise. - Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 2229

Maryland Student Says Faith Drives Morals,
Denied Admission Twice -

"During his [Dustin Buxton] admission interview, Buxton told the interviewer that his faith drives his morals, in response to a specific question about what he views as his guiding life principles. His answer was deemed unacceptable..." - ACLJ, 09.28.2104

Liberty Counsel

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: Catholic Education Newsletter

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

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

Apps

Updates

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

Family Research Council

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

Salt and Light TV

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

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)

Revew by U.S. Catholic

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).