II. Human Freedom in the Economy of Salvation
1740
Threats to freedom. the exercise of freedom does not imply a right to say or do
everything. It is false to maintain that man, “the subject of this
freedom,” is “an individual who is fully self-sufficient and whose
finality is the satisfaction of his own interests in the enjoyment of earthly
goods.”33 Moreover, the economic, social, political, and cultural
conditions that are needed for a just exercise of freedom are too often
disregarded or violated. Such situations of blindness and injustice injure the
moral life and involve the strong as well as the weak in the temptation to sin
against charity. By deviating from the moral law man violates his own freedom, becomes
imprisoned within himself, disrupts neighborly fellowship, and rebels against
divine truth.
- SECTION ONE MAN’S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
- CHAPTER ONE THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
- Article 3 MAN’S FREEDOM
- II. Human Freedom in the Economy of Salvation
- Article 3 MAN’S FREEDOM
- CHAPTER ONE THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
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