Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Smith: "Religious Freedom and the Church"
From Steven Smith, at the CLR Forum blog:
We’ve been discussing on this blog the prospects for religious freedom, and factors that may affect those prospects. Here’s one factor that we haven’t really mentioned, but that I think will be crucial: the church. The fortunes of religious freedom, I would argue, have always been connected in close if complicated ways to the fortunes of the church. And this connection is likely to continue.
Indeed.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2012/07/smith-religious-freedom-and-the-church.html
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Steve Smith certainly is correct that the "fortunes of religious freedom" are connected to the "fortunes of the church." I greatly appreciate and admire Steve's introducing the significance of this connection into the present discourse. I would only add that the fortunes of the church/Church are connected to the (so to speak) "fortunes" of the Christ. The Church does not speak for herself: she speaks for the One whose mystical body she is. If Christ is having a bad day (so to speak), so is the Church, and so -- it would follow -- is religious freedom.