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Religious persecution has many forms. There are violent, upfront ways to deny people their God-given right to religious freedom. And there are subtle, veiled ones to eventually accomplish a similar end. While one would hope we never get to the extremes of the first one, the second is no less real or dangerous—precisely because it is not as easy to identify. The first Amendment of the U.

They are the very first freedoms enumerated in the Bill of Rights for a reason: they are all foundational pillars of the U.

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Religious freedom is more than freedom of worship. It goes beyond protecting our ability to attend Mass or a religious service. It guarantees citizens of all faiths, or none whatsoever, the right to contribute to our common life. We Catholics and other religious people come to the table with what we are and what we have.

We put our beliefs, values and structures at the service of the common good, because our faith demands that we do so. We have the right and duty to contribute to society. The Church invests in the common good, for instance, by establishing and running schools, hospitals, universities, charities and social services. Our government and society have long relied on them for help and taken advantage of the vast network that churches and religious institutions provide to aid people in need and to help form good citizens.


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So when the government, instead of the religious institution, arrogates to itself the power to decide who is sufficiently religious to be considered a religious institution or when religious institutions are disqualified from a government contract based on religious belief, something has gone terribly wrong with the delicate balance our Founding Fathers sought. On the Fourth of July some churches plan to ring their bells in conjunction with this initiative. So come Independence Day, let freedom of religion ring and let every person of faith in this country reclaim his and her God-given right to a religious belief or none at all and to act and live accordingly.

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Part one of this article elaborated on how attacks to religious freedom take many forms, sometimes violent sometimes subtle. We also saw how our Founding Fathers sought to achieve a delicate balance by protecting certain freedoms as foundational and how religious believers are part of American civil society. In part two, we will see examples of a gradual erosion of religious liberties in this country that have led religious people of many faiths to raise their voice against injustice and discrimination. The erosion of religious liberty in this country has been a decades-old process spanning Democrat and Republican administrations.

It is not just a current Administration issue, although now we have reached a critical point. Thomas also says that your love for God can never gradually cool, or be chipped away slowly or diminished.

It can only be totally lost be mortal sin; venial sin is not a matter of cooling and loving God less. It is a matter of loving the things in this world too much, perhaps dangerously too much, and failing to express your love of God and growing. Venial sins all carry an ecclesial health warning: sinning can seriously damage your health your spiritual health.

Clear heads and holy hearts

So of course it is very easy. You do not have to work at being forgiven; you only have to accept it, to believe in the forgiveness of God in Christ, in his eternal unconditional love for you. But sin, any sin, even venial sin, has given you a kind of addiction to lesser things, the things of this world. So besides being forgiven we need to break out of this addiction.


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There is no other way. The only way to God is through death. Christ did not die for us instead of us. He died to make it possible for us to die and rise again in him.

Clear heads and holy hearts

And this is hard. And this is what Lent is for. It reminds us that we come through death to life, through denial of self to our true selves, and it helps us to start the process—so that we may be ready for the final Easter when we rise in glory and freedom to live for eternity in the love of God. Thomas O. On the first Saturday of Lent, March 12, , Fr.

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