Religious Realism in Foreign Policy: Lessons from Vatican II
Thomas Farr Thursday, 1 December 2005
It is widely acknowledged that the great Vatican II Declaration on Religious Liberty, Dignitatis Humanae, was influenced by the American experience. Filtered through the work of Jesuit theologian John Courtney Murray, the American understanding of religious freedom and its place in the nation's democratic experiment helped to inform the Council Fathers in developing the Church's doctrine of human freedom in civil society, and its view of the proper role of government in addressing the religious dimension of individual and social life.
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