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John Courtney Murray and the Orthodoxy of Freedom: An Application to Economic Life
"“The Vatican Council declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom.”
Thus begins the first chapter of the Declaration of Religious Liberty approved
by the Second Vatican Council on 7 December 1965. What follows from this
dramatic statement is a powerful and affecting argument on behalf of legal structures
and social orders that permit the civic flourishing of political freedom with
regard to religious faith."(...