Obedience and Freedom

Our Blessed Lord said to His disciples: Now I call you not servants ... but I have called you friends. And to the Jews He said: You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.St. Paul wrote to the Galatians of the freedom wherewith Christ hath made us free; and told them: Stand, and be not holden in again with the yoke of servitude.The cry of freedom is one to which men have always, throughout their history, rallied. That cry of freedom, in particular, which is in the New Testament has been sounded again and again by the Church throughout its history; so that, as Pope Leo XIII declared, whenever men 'have attacked the liberty of man, the Church has defended it and protected this noble possession from destruction.' 'The powerful influence of the Church,' he said again, 'has ever been manifested in the custody and protection of the civil and political liberty of the people

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