tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418166821095736040.post1809990615331170466..comments2023-04-04T09:08:04.554-05:00Comments on musings from the pastor's study: MORE ON TOLERATIONfr. david tokarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14323039126889157726noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418166821095736040.post-55302393916435445472011-01-28T21:32:41.767-06:002011-01-28T21:32:41.767-06:00What a comprehensive and beautiful expression of f...What a comprehensive and beautiful expression of faith by our Pope Benedict given on Jan. 1, 2011, The World Day of Peace. I quote only an excerpt which particularly impressed me: "Religious freedom, like every freedom, proceeds from the personal sphere and is achieved in relationship with others. Freedom without relationship is not full freedom. Relationship is a decisive component in religious freedom, which impels the community of believers to practise solidarity for the common good."<br />Later he expresses: "Laws and institutions of a society cannot be shaped in such a way as to ignore the religious dimensions of its citizens or to prescind completely from it. As St. Thomas Aquinas would say 'Every truth, whoever utters it, comes from the Holy Spirit.'"<br /> For myself, it has been a process of acceptance, first within myself, of subduing waves of impatient impulses concerning differences of lifestyles and learning to listen, and second, in studying <br />the lives of holy and principled human beings as guides for my continued spiritual growth. Peace follows.NEWER PATHWAYShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16886600691681161967noreply@blogger.com