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Unity and freedom of Catholics

You see, dearly beloved children, how great is the need to form Catholics with a very specific aim: to lead them to unity regarding essentials while at the same time leaving them to use their legitimate freedom in temporal affairs, with charity and understanding toward everyone. Freedom: no more dogmas in debatable matters!

It is contrary to human dignity and even to human psychology to arbitrarily establish certain absolute truths in matters where every individual necessarily looks at them from their own viewpoint, according to their particular interests and their own personal experience. Besides, a one-party system, the necessary consequence of introducing only one possible option, is unable to direct a country’s public life over a long period. In the end, it exhausts its energies and ends up losing the sympathy and trust of people, even if on the whole it worked positively and without immorality. This is what I honestly think, but I may be wrong: it would not be the first time.

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