Catholic Diocese Of Joliet

The Bishop continues his overview of the Declaration on Religious Freedom ("Dignitatis Humane") from Vatican II. He said the Council Fathers declared in the document that people have right to religious freedom. People should be free from coercion so that people should not act against his religious convictions or have religious convictions imposed on them. The right of religious liberty is based on the dignity of the person as revealed by God and by reason itself. The bishops say we have religious freedom because God is calling us into a relationship with Him. Religious freedom allows us to enter the core of who we are and why we are, even if people don’t want to exercise that freedom.