{"id":52500,"date":"2015-12-04T21:34:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T21:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/arne_panula-dignitatis_humanae_is_a_lodestar_of_religious_liberty_that_tod\/"},"modified":"2015-12-04T21:34:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T21:34:34","slug":"arne_panula-dignitatis_humanae_is_a_lodestar_of_religious_liberty_that_tod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52500","title":{"rendered":"Arne Panula&#8211;Dignitatis Humanae is a Lodestar of Religious Liberty that today is under assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 7 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most pivotal documents in the Catholic Church\u2019s 2,000-year history: Dignitatis Humanae, or \u201cOn the Dignity of the Human Person.\u201d\u009d Issued at the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, the work stated the church\u2019s belief \u201cthat the human person has a right to religious freedom.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>This declaration was at once revolutionary and reaffirming of Catholic tradition\u201d\u201dand its significance has only increased as attacks on religious freedom have proliferated in the intervening years.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, the Catholic Church\u2019s affirmation of religious liberty echoes the American tradition of religious freedom, articulated so forcefully in the writings of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and given constitutional enumeration in the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-lodestar-of-religious-liberty-1449188143\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 7 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most pivotal documents in the Catholic Church\u2019s 2,000-year history: Dignitatis Humanae, or \u201cOn the Dignity of the Human Person.\u201d\u009d Issued at the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52500\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,42,186,168,144,119,133,114,154,151,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-church-history","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}