Posted by David Adrian
on 6/12/2012, 11:37 pm, in reply to "Re: Presentation by Fr. Chad Hatfield at the Conference on Religious Freedom"
Al:
See "Not just a concern for Catholics" on the Koinonia website at http://palamas.info/. Commenting on a story from the Catholic News Agency, Father Gregory writes:
"At some point the Orthodox Christians will have to decide as well whether or not we are going to defend religious liberty or not.
"Simply put, will we remain on the sidelines while others are mistreated [or] will we join our voices in condemning unjust laws? Archbishop Iakovos of blessed memory marched with Martin Luther King Jr. Can we do any less today in response to laws that require Catholics to violate their own moral teaching?
"As it stands now if Catholics are to be faithful to their own tradition they must risk either legal sanction or the loss of a wide range of ministries that testify to the truth of the Gospel.
"Can we as Orthodox Christians really claim to love Christ if we stand by without protest? Or are we simply naive, or secularized, that we imagine that we will escape tomorrow what today the Catholic Church [faces?] today?"
David
