Priests do not make known their political opinions

You don’t know my personal opinion on particular political matters, because I do not speak about them. And when there are priests in the Work, they should follow the same rule of conduct, since their mission will be, like mine, exclusively spiritual.

Mutual respect

Besides, even if you did know my personal political opinions, you would be under no obligation to follow them. My opinion is not dogma nor is yours. Dogmas are established only by the Magisterium of the Church in matters referring to the deposit of faith. We would not be consistent if we did not respect the opinions of others different from our own, just as my children would not be consistent if they failed to exercise their right to make known their political views in matters of free debate.

I have already told you why. If responsible Catholics, with complete agreement in their common denominator and also with their different views in debatable matters, are not involved in temporal questions, this field will easily fall into the hands of those who do not consider the principles of the natural law, society’s true common good, or the rights of the Church. These are people, moreover, who don’t generally respect opinions contrary to their own. That is to say, without the Christian spirit of respecting certain untouchable principles and respecting the legitimate freedom of choice in debatable matters, there can be no peace, or freedom, or justice in society.