Chapter 28 The Religious Liberty of Vatican 2.

Part 1

According to Vatican 2, the human person would have the right in the name of his dignity

not to be impeded from exercising his religious worship,

whatever it might be, in private or in public, unless this troubles the public tranquility and morality.

You will acknowledge that the public morality of the pluralist state promoted by the council is not by

nature going to cramp this liberty a great deal. Any more than the advanced rotting of liberal

society would limit the right to the liberty of partnership, if it were proclaimed in an

indistinct way by the couples who are living together unwed,

all in the name of their human dignity.

Thus you, Muslims, pray undisturbed in the very midst of our Christian streets.

You build your mosques and your minarets beside the steeples of our churches.

The Church of Vatican II assures you that no one should hinder you from this,

and the same goes for the Buddhists and the Hindus.

In return for this, we Catholics will ask you for religious freedom in your countries,

in the name of the liberty that we grant

you in ours. We will also be able to defend our religious rights in the face of the

communist regimes in the name of a principle declared by so dignified a religious assembly,

and already recognized by the UN and Freemasonry.

This is, moreover, the consideration that Pope John Paul II made to me on the occasion

of the audience that he granted me on November 18, 1978.

You know, he said to me, religious liberty has been very useful for us in Poland, against

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