{"id":31178,"date":"2014-07-04T13:55:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31178"},"modified":"2014-07-04T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T16:59:10","slug":"a-catholic-view-of-a-religious-pluralism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/a-catholic-view-of-a-religious-pluralism\/","title":{"rendered":"A Catholic view of a religious pluralism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Synod Fathers spoke of the importance of <strong>respect for religious freedom<\/strong>, viewed as a fundamental human right.\u00a0This includes \u201cthe freedom to choose the religion which one judges to be true and to manifest one\u2019s beliefs in public\u201d.<strong>\u00a0A healthy pluralism<\/strong>, one which genuinely respects differences and values them as such, <strong>does not entail privatizing religions<\/strong> in an attempt to reduce them to the quiet obscurity of the individual\u2019s conscience or to relegate them to the enclosed precincts of churches, synagogues or mosques. This would represent, in effect, a new form of discrimination and authoritarianism. The respect due to the agnostic or non-believing minority should not be arbitrarily imposed in a way that silences the convictions of the believing majority or ignores the wealth of religious traditions. <strong>In the long run, this would feed resentment rather than tolerance and peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis<br \/>\n<em>Evangelii gaudium<\/em>, 255<\/p>\n<p>First thoughts for our national day of Freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Synod Fathers spoke of the importance of respect for religious freedom, viewed as a fundamental human right.\u00a0This includes \u201cthe freedom to choose the religion which one judges to be true and to manifest one\u2019s beliefs in public\u201d.\u00a0A healthy pluralism, one which genuinely respects differences and values them as such, does not entail privatizing religions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/a-catholic-view-of-a-religious-pluralism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Catholic view of a religious pluralism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[31947,1769],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31179,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31178\/revisions\/31179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}