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Free to Worship - Religious Liberty and Human Rights by Russell Shaw
In his message for the 2007 World Day of Peace last New Year’s Day, Pope Benedict XVI surprised some readers by linking the right to life and the right to religious freedom. The right to life, Benedict said, arises from the fact that life is a gift from God. No one, including its possessor, can claim authority over it. As for religious freedom, it similarly "places the human being in a relationship with a transcendent principle which withdraws him from human caprice." More


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