Bogwitch

…The basic question before a democratic society is: ‘how ought we to live together?’ In seeking an answer to this question, can society exclude moral truth and moral reasoning? … Surely it is important for America that the moral truths which make freedom possible should be passed on to each new generation. Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

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Pope John Paul II, homily in Orioles Park (via heroantihero)
(emphasis mine)

I hesitate to post anything political at all, because there are a lot of things that the relationship between government & religion should not be, but this is good.  I think.

(Source: catholic-forum.com, via twelvecellphones)