John Courtney Murray and the Orthodoxy of Freedom: An Application to Economic Life

Abstract

"“The Vatican Council declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom.” Thus begins the first chapter of the Declaration of Religious Liberty approved by the Second Vatican Council on 7 December 1965. What follows from this dramatic statement is a powerful and affecting argument on behalf of legal structures and social orders that permit the civic flourishing of political freedom with regard to religious faith."(...)