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Libertad de 
conciencia en 
el 2000, según 
Juan Pablo II

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"the pope has some bad news: Only Rome has a direct line to God" Time Sept. 5, 2000

"El papa Juan Pablo II…tiene malas noticias: Solo Roma tiene una linea directa 
a Dios"

Time Sept. 5, 2000

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English Section:
"CONSCIENCES MUST BE FORMED TO DISCERN THE OBJECTIVE MORAL LAW"

The Christian right and their views on the separation of Church & State

Congress may adopt a NATIONAL ID CARD....El Congreso de Estados Unidos considera establecer una Tarjeta de Identificación Nacional........

The Vatican and freedom of speech

In response to several requests on the Holy See's position vis-à-vis recent offensive representations of the 
religious sentiments of individuals and entire communities, the Vatican press office can state:

1. The right to freedom of thought and expression, sanctioned by the Declaration of the Rights of Man, 
cannot imply the right to offend the religious sentiment of believers. This principle applies obviously 
for any religion.

2. In addition, coexistence calls for a climate of mutual respect to favor peace among men and nations. 
Moreover, these forms of exasperated criticism or derision of others manifest a lack of human sensitivity 
and may constitute in some cases an inadmissible provocation. A reading of history shows that wounds 
that exist in the life of peoples are not cured this way.

3. However, it must be said immediately that the offenses caused by an individual or an organ of the press 
cannot be imputed to the public institutions of the corresponding country, whose authorities might and should 
intervene eventually according to the principles of national legislation. Therefore, violent actions of protest are 
equally deplorable. Reaction in the face of offense cannot fail the true spirit of all religion. Real or verbal intolerance, 
no matter where it comes from, as action or reaction, is always a serious threat to peace.

The Ten Commandments Commission celebrarán el Día de los 10

The Visionary-blessed are the peacemakers. January 04, 2006. "He is a Pope of surprises. 
e always seems to be the Benedict we thought 
we knew, but didn’t.
....But what is all this deceit fundamentally about? It is about what the Second 
Vatican Council, in its document Gaudium et Spes published forty years ago this month, called 
"the truth of peace”. It is a truth about who we are and what human society is. And Benedict XVI is 
a prophet of that truth, a moral witness of the stature of John Paul II.
He dreams of a world “which 
ultimately enables the truth about man to be fully respected and realized”, and perhaps from his 
mountaintop he speaks especially to the United States..."  The Pope page, Catholic.net 1-4-06

Hopes Rise for Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue
VATICAN CITY, JAN. 20, 2006 (Zenit.org).- This is the year to relaunch the dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox 
Churches, says an article in L'Osservatore Romano.
..."It concretized the authentic nature of the problem under discussion,"
 stated Monsignor Fortino. "The birth of the Catholic Eastern Churches is profoundly linked to the
affirmation of the primacy of
 the Bishop of Rome in the Church of Christ."
Therefore, the "primacy of the Church" will be one of the key topics for the future 
of the Catholic-Orthodox dialogue"

La Libertad de conciencia en el año 2000, según Juan Pablo II:

Posición de la Iglesia Católica sobre quien tiene la verdad

"La iglesia está preservada en la verdad, y su misión es anunciar 
y enseñar auténticamente la Verdad,
que es Cristo, y al mismo 
tiempo, declarar
y confirmar CON SU AUTORIDAD los principios 
de ORDEN MORAL que fluyen de la misma naturaleza humana" 

Juan Pablo II- L’Osservatore Romano - 24 de julio de 1998

"La noción deLIBERTAD como autonomía personal es atractiva solo en la superficie; 
sostenida por los intelectuales, los medios de comunicación social, last  
legislaturas y los tribunales, se transforma en una poderosa fuerza cultural. 
Pero en el fondo destruye el bien personal de los individuos y el bien común 
de la sociedad...."
Discurso de Juan Pablo II al noveno grupo de obispos de Texas, Oklahoma
y Arkansas de Estados Unidos, 27 de junio de 1998 -
L’Osservatore Romano - 24 de julio de 1998

¿Se contradice Juan Pablo II? Examine todas las noticias 
Libertad religiosa: «indispensable» para evitar guerras de civilización
Mensaje del Papa para la Jornada mundial de las migraciones 2002

"CIUDAD DEL VATICANO, 18 octubre 2001 (ZENIT.org).- El respeto absoluto de la 
libertad de religión es una condición «indispensable»
para evitar enfrentamientos 
entre las civilizaciones, afirma Juan Pablo II con motivo de la Jornada mundial del 
emigrante y refugiado del año 2000....."
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"CONSCIENCES MUST BE FORMED TO DISCERN THE OBJECTIVE MORAL LAW"

"It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the 
faith and the truth"
"Es un error aplicar procedimientos democráticos americanos a la
fe y la verdad"
TIME-December 26, 1994-Man of the Year Pope
John Paul II, pg. 65.

CONSCIENCES MUST BE FORMED TO DISCERN THE OBJECTIVE MORAL LAW

"As Bishops you have to teach that freedom of conscience is never freedom from the 
truth but always and only freedom in the truth. ..."
Taken from: L'Osservatore Romano Weekly 
Edition in English 1 July 1998, 

"freedom of conscience is never freedom from the truth but always and only freedom in the truth..."
Taken from: L'Osservatore Romano Weekly Edition in English 1 July 1998, 

CONSCIENCES MUST BE FORMED TO DISCERN THE OBJECTIVE MORAL LAW
'Ad limina Apostolorum': Bishops of the United States - 10

Pope John Paul II

"By teaching the moral truth about the human person and witnessing 
to the moral law inscribed on the human heart, the Bishops of the 
Church are defending and promoting
not arbitrary claims made by 
the Church but essential truths, and therefore the good of individuals 
and the common good of society"...The Pope also reminded the Pastors 
from the states of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas that human consciences are 
not infallible, but must be formed so that they can discern the truth: 

"As Bishops you have to teach that freedom of conscience is never freedom 
from th
e truth but always and only freedom in the truth....As shepherds of souls, 
you must be Christ's voice today, encouraging your people to rediscover "the 
beauty of truth, the liberating force of God's love, and the value of unconditional 
fidelity to all the demands of the Lord's law, even in the most difficult situations....


Obedience to God's commandments, far from alienating us from our humanity, 
is the pathway to genuine liberation and the source of true happiness....


The notion of freedom as personal autonomy is superficially attractive; endorsed 
by intellectuals, the media, legislatures and the courts, it becomes a powerful 
cultural force.
Yet it ultimately destroys the personal good of individuals and the 
common good of society.
Freedom-as-autonomy, by its single-minded focus on 
the autonomous will of the individual as the sole organizing principle of public life, 
dissolves the bonds of obligation between men and women, parents and children, 
the strong and the weak, majorities and minorities. The result is the breakdown of 
civil society, and a public life in which the only actors of consequence are the 
autonomous individual and the State. This, as the 20th century ought to have taught 
us, is a sure prescription for tyranny....In Christ, we know that "the good of the person 
lies in being in the Truth and doing the Truth" (Address to the International Congress 
of Moral Theology, 10 April 1986, n. 1. In this Christian anthropology, the nobility of 
men and women lies, not simply in the capacity to choose, but in the capacity to 
choose wisely and to live according to that choice of what is good....

Holy Spirit preserves the Church in the truth

By teaching the moral truth about the human person and witnessing to the moral 
law
inscribed on the human heart, the Bishops of the Church are defending and 
promoting not arbitrary claims made by the Church but essential truths, and 
therefore the good of individuals and the common good of society.

4. If the dignity of the human person as a moral agent rests on the capacity to 
know and choose what is truly good, then the question of conscience comes 
into clearer focus. Respect for the rights of conscience is deeply ingrained in 
your national culture, which was formed in part by emigrants who came to the 
New World to vindicate their religious and moral convictions in the face of 
persecution.
American society's historic admiration for men and women of 
conscience is the ground on which you can teach the truth about conscience 
today.
The Church honors conscience as the "sanctuary" of the human person: 
here, men and women are "alone with God", whose voice echoes in the depths 
of their hearts, summoning them to love good and avoid evil 
(cf. Gaudium etspes, n. 16). Conscience is that inner place where "man 
detects a law which he does not impose upon himself, but which holds him 
to obedience" (ibid.).This being the case, the dignity of conscience is demeaned 
when it is suggested, as the defenders of radical individual autonomy claim, 
that conscience is a wholly independent, exclusively personal capacity to 
determine what constitutes good and evil (cf. Dominum et Vivificantem, n. 43).

Everyone must act in accordance with conscience. But conscience is neither 
absolutely independent nor infallible in its judgments,- if it were, conscience would 
be reduced to the mere assertion of personal will.
Thus it is precisely a defense of 
the dignity of conscience and of the human person to teach that consciences must 
be formed,
so that they can discern what actually does or does not correspond to the 
"eternal, objective and universal divine law"
which human intelligence is capable of 
discovering in the order of being (cf. Dignitatis humanae, n. 3; Veritatis 
splendor, n. 60). Because of the nature of conscience, the admonition always 
to follow it must immediately  be followed by the question of whether what our 
conscience is telling us is true or not. If we fail to make this necessary clarification, 
conscience - instead of being that holy place where God reveals to us our true 
good - becomes a force which is destructive of our true humanity and of all 
our relationships (cf. General Audience, 17 August 1983, n. 3).

As Bishops you have to teach that freedom of conscience is never freedom from the 
truth but always and only freedom in the truth.
This understanding of conscience and 
its relationship to freedom should clarify certain aspects of the question of dissent from 
Church teaching. By the will of Christ himself and the life-giving power of the Holy Spirit, 
the Church is preserved in the truth and "it is her duty to give utterance to, and 
authoritatively to teach, that truth
which is Christ himself, and to declare and confirm 
by her authority those principles of the moral order which have their origin in human 
nature itself" (Dignitatis humanae, n.14)....

In teaching the truth about conscience and its intrinsic relationship to moral truth, you will 
be challenging one of the great forces in the modern world.
But at the same time, you will 
be doing the modern world a great service, for you will be reminding it of the only foundation 
capable of sustaining a culture of freedom: what the Founders of your nation called 
"self-evident" truths....

6. It is a tribute to the Church and to the openness of American society that so many 
Catholics in the United States are involved in political life. As pastors and teachers, 
your responsibility to Catholic public officials is to remind them of the heritage of 
reflection on the moral law, on society, on democracy, which they ought to bring to 
their office.
Your country prides itself on being realized democracy, but democracy 
is itself a moral adventure,
a continuing test of a people's capacity to govern themselves 
in ways that serve the common good and the good of individual citizens. The survival 
of a particular democracy depends not only on its institutions, but to an even greater 
extent on the spirit which inspires and permeates its procedures for legislating, 
administering, and judging. The future of democracy in fact depends on a culture 
capable of forming men and women who are prepared to defend certain truths 
and values.
It is imperiled when politics and law are sundered from any connection 
to the moral law written on the human heart.

Taken from: L'Osservatore Romano Weekly Edition in English 
1 July 1998, page 3

'Ad limina Apostolorum': Bishops of the United States - 4
Pope John Paul II

On Tuesday, 17 March, the Holy Father welcomed the third group of United 
States Bishops to make their ad limina visit to Rome. Speaking of the Church's 
essential missionary nature to prelates from the District of Columbia and the 
states of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, 
Georgia and Florida...

When freedom is detached from the truth about the human person and from 
the moral law inscribed in human nature, then society and its democratic form 
of life are imperiled. For if freedom is not linked to truth and ordered to goodness, 
"the ground is laid for society to be at the mercy of the unrestrained will of 
individuals or the oppressive totalitarianism of public authority"

Taken from: L'Osservatore Romano Weekly Edition in English
25 March 1998, page 9

The Christian Right and their views on the Separation of Church & State:
Pat Robertson:
"They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church 
and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution.
It's a lie of the left, and we're not 
going to take it anymore." -Pat Robertson (The State, Columbia, South Carolina, Nov. 14, 1993.)

"The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for 
self-government by Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the 
hands of non-Christian and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation 
of our society."
-Pat Robertson (The 700 Club, Dec. 30, 1981)

Jerry Falwell:
"I do not believe in the separation of church and state, nor did our founders. This is a 
nation under God, built upon the Judeo-Christian ethic."-
Jerry Falwell (USATODAY.com Interview, August 2, 2000)

Are we about to lose religious freedom in America?

"The appearance of Governor George W. Bush at Bob Jones University has generated 
an unprecedented storm of controversy and criticism of a Christian Institution,
and 
that has to raise some serious and disturbing questions in the minds of all those who 
cherish religious freedom. If a political candidate gave a speech at a Jewish institution, 
would he be expected to condemn all the teachings of Judaism that he disagreed with 
or found politically incorrect? If the same politician appeared to speak at a Muslim college, 
would he be expected to condemn the Islamic religion for their beliefs that are not 
considered politically correct? What religious institution would ever invite a politician 
if a condemnation of their theology or general beliefs and practices was expected as 
the norm?
So why is it that a fundamentalist Protestant Bible-believing Christian University 
comes under such condemnation and scrutiny by politicians and the press because of 
their religious beliefs? Why is Protestantism any less acceptable than any other religion 
in the American forum?...." BibleLight.net

The Interfaith Alliance Supports Senate Resolution Condemning Bob Jones University

"(Washington, DC -February 24, 2000) In support of Senator Robert Torricelli's (D-NJ) 
Senate Resolution condemning the discriminatory practices prevalent at Bob Jones 
University and challenging Congress to stand against divisive practices of the South 
Carolina school, the Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, issued the following statement:

"On behalf of concerned people of faith, I urge members of the United States Senate 
to denounce any association of bigotry, discrimination, and intolerance with religious 
faith. When a university, or any institution, in our society ties prejudice to spirituality, 
people of conscience must protest. For Bob Jones University to foment bigotry in 
the name of Christianity is the height of hypocrisy if not heresy...."

Response from Bob Jones University

"....Recently U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli from New Jersey attacked this freedom 
when he announced sponsorship of a U.S. Senate resolution to censure Bob Jones 
University for its religious beliefs.  This attack ought to offend and frighten every 
freedom-loving person. What other religious belief will find itself in the 
gunsight of the U.S. Senate next?  Will it be:

Islam's doctrines with regard to women? The Qur’an states: “Men have 
authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other” 
(Sura 4:34).

Roman Catholicism's doctrine that the Pope is infallible? “The First Vatican 
Council has defined as ‘a divinely revealed dogma’ that ‘the Roman Pontiff, 
when he speaks ex cathedra . . . is possessed of infallibility . . . that such 
definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable . . .’ ” (Kevin Knight, On-line 
Catholic Encyclopedia
, www.newadvent.org/cathen/07790a.htm).

The belief in Judaism restricting the marriage choices of their adherents? 
“According to post-Sinaitic Jewish law, a marriage can be contracted only 
between two Jews, so an intermarriage is not recognized” 
(www.faqs.org/faqs/judaism/FAQ/05-Worship/).

Would you desire to see them persecuted by the Senate, by Presidential candidates, 
or by the media because their beliefs are not yours and may even offend you?  
We wouldn't!...."

Quotes on Tolerance: Quoted from the Interfaith Alliance

Pat Robertson Pat Robertson James Dobson Pat Robertson Pat Robertson
The New World Order, (1991) p.227 The Washington Post, Sept. 17, 1994 Focus on the Family, November 4, 1996 The 700 Club, January 14, 1991 The 700 Club, October 27, 1997
"How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age, worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy moneychangers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?" In his address to the Christian Coalition's annual convention in Washington in September 1994, he said that the organization was now "where God intended...one of the most powerful forces in American history." "Tolerance is a "kind of watchword of those who reject the concepts of right and wrong....It's a kind of a desensitization to evil of all varieties. Everything has become acceptable to those who are tolerant."" "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them. "To see Americans become followers of, quote, Islam, is nothing short of insanity. "

Quotes on Politics: Quoted from the Interfaith Alliance

Dan Quayle Pat Robertson Ralph Reed Ralph Reed Pat Robertson
July 23, 1999,
The Arizona Republic
"Pat Robertson's Perspective," April - May 1992 The Los Angeles Times, reprinted in The Religious Right: The Assault of Tolerance & Pluralism in America, produced by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) May 1, 1990, Religious News Service October 1997 Church & State, produced by Americans United for Separation of Church and State
When asked by Christian Coalition's Iowa Director Bobbie Gobel about his chances in the 2000 elections, Quayle replied that "if God is in this, I will be the next president of the United States." "The strategy aginst the American radical left should be the same as General Douglas MacArthur employed against the Japanese in the Pacific . . . bypass their strongholds, then surround them, isolate them bombard them, then blast the individuals out of their power bunkers with hand-to-hand combat. The battle for Iwo Jima was not pleasant, but our troops won it. The battle to regain the soul of America won't be pleasant either, but we will win it." "It's like guerrilla warfare....It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly or you can put on a red coat and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us which tactic is more effective." "What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time and one state at a time...." "In a September 13th closed-door session with the Christian Coalition, Pat Robertson said "I told Don Hodel when he joined us, I said, 'My dear friend, I want to hold out to you the possibility of selecting the next president of the United States because I think that's what we have in this organization.' And I believe we can indeed.""

El Papa: Una cultura sin verdad no es una garantía para la libertad
Discurso a los profesores universitarios, sábado 9 de septiembre

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO-21 de Sept.- "El pasado 9 de septiembre Juan Pablo II
intervino ante siete mil profesores universitarios y estudiantes que se congregaron 
en Roma para celebrar el Jubileo de la universidad. El pontífice puso en evidencia, 
en el encuentro, «tendencias preocupantes» de la sociedad actual que tienen lugar 
«cuando se reduce la democracia a un hecho puramente de procedimiento, o
 cuando se piensa que la voluntad expresada por la mayoría basta simplemente 
para determinar la aceptabilidad moral de una ley».....
Una cultura sin verdad no
 es una garantía para la libertad, sino más bien un riesgo.
....La Iglesia, que ha 
desempeñado históricamente un papel de primer orden
en el mismo nacimiento
 de las universidades, sigue mirándolas con profundo aprecio, y espera de vosotros 
una contribución decisiva para que esta institución entre en el nuevo milenio 
reencontrándose plenamente a sí misma como lugar donde se desarrollan de modo
 cualificado la apertura al saber, la pasión por la verdad y el interés por el futuro
del hombre.
" Zenit Sept. 21, 2000  

Oct. 19, 2001

George Weigel: «La familia favorece la libertad auténtica»
Zenit-

Comentario del Editor de Bible Ministry:
En los medios noticiosos del mundo se publican constantemente artículos sobre las 
expresiones del papa Juan Pablo II, y la libertad religiosa, la libertad de conciencia.  
Aparentemente el papa defiende la libertad de conciencia. Pero leamos las siguientes 
declaraciones del papa Juan Pablo II, y determinemos si verdaderamente el defiende 
la libertad religiosa.  Analicemos el plan papal con los obispos norteamericanos para
 enseñar la nueva conciencia,
la nueva versión de libertad religiosa que el papa 
quiere para Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para el mundo entero:

VISITA "AD LIMINA" A ROMA

"La actual CRISIS cultural tiene características DISTINTIVAS que confieren a
vuestra tarea de maestros morales una URGENCIA REAL…La noción de
LIBERTAD como autonomía personal es atractiva solo en la superficie; 
sostenida por los intelectuales, los medios de comunicación social, las 
legislaturas y los tribunales, se transforma en una poderosa fuerza cultural. 
Pero en el fondo destruye el bien personal de los individuos y el bien común 
de la sociedad.
La LIBERTAD como autonomía, concentrándose únicamente 
en la voluntad autónoma de la persona como único principio organizador de 
la vida pública, disuelve los vínculos de obligación entre hombres y mujeres,
padres e hijos, fuertes y débiles, mayorías y minorías. Esto lleva a la 
destrucción de la sociedad civil,
y a una vida pública en la que los únicos 
protagonistas son el individuo autónomo y el Estado. Como debería 
habernos enseñado el siglo XX,
se trata de un camino seguro hacia
 la tiranía"

Si la dignidad de la persona humana como agente moral reside en su 
capacidad de conocer y elegir lo que es verdaderamente bueno
entonces 
la cuestion de conciencia llega a enfocarse más claramente.
El respeto
 a los derechos de la CONCIENCIA está profundamente arraigado en
 vuestra CULTURA NACIONAL
,
que en parte ha sido formada por los 
inmigrantes que llegaron al nuevo mundo para defender sus convicciones
 religiosas y morales frente a las persecuciones.

La admiración histórica de la sociedad norteamericana por los hombres 
y mujeres de conciencias es el fundamento en que podéis basaros para 
enseñar la verdad sobre la CONCIENCIA HOY"  La conciencia es el lugar 
más íntimo en donde "el hombre descubre una ley que él no se da a sí 
mismo, sino a la que debe obedecer"…Todos deben obrar de acuerdo 
con su conciencia.
Pero la conciencia no es ni absolutamente
independiente ni infalible en sus juicios.

Si así fuera, la conciencia debería reducirse a una mera afirmación de la
voluntad personal. Por eso, precisamente para defender la dignidad de
la conciencia y de la persona humana,
hay que enseñar que la conciencia 
debe formarse, fin de que se pueda discernir lo que realmente corresponde 
o no corresponde a "la misma ley divina, eterna, objetiva y universal. 

Como obispos tenéis que enseñar que la LIBERTAD DE CONCIENCIA
 no es jamás LIBERTAD DE LA VERDAD, sino siempre y sólo
 LIBERTAD EN LA VERDAD
.

Esta manera de entender la conciencia y su relación con la libertad debería
aclarar ciertos aspectos de la cuestión del disenso con respecto a la 
enseñanza
de la Iglesia.
Por voluntad de Cristo mismo y por la fuerza 
vivificante del Espíritu Santo,
la Iglesia está preservada en la verdad, 
"y su misión es anunciar y enseñar auténticamente la Verdad,
que es
Cristo, y al mismo tiempo, declarar y
confirmar CON SU AUTORIDAD
los principios de ORDEN MORAL que fluyen de la misma naturaleza
humana"

"…el Cardenal John Henry Newman escribió en su Carta al Duque de Norfolk: 
"En este siglo (la conciencia) ha sido reemplazada por una falsificación 
desconocida en los dieciocho siglos anteriores,
y que aunque la 
hubieran conocido, no la habrían confundido, Es el derecho a la 
autodeterminación"

"En Cristo sabemos que "el bien de la persona consiste en estar en la verdad, 
y en realizar la verdad". (Discurso al Congreso Internacional de teología moral
- abril 10 de 1986). En esta antropología cristiana, la nobleza del hombre y
de la mujer no reside simplemente en su capacidad de elegir, sino en 
su capacidad de elegir sabiamente, y vivir de acuerdo con la elección 
de lo que es bueno"

"En estas circunstancias, la confusión entre los fieles católicos es
enorme. Como el documento del Concilio Vaticano sobre la 
libertad religiosa condena cualquier intento de forzar a alguien 
a adoptar una creencia religiosa en contra de su voluntad, en
consencuencia se supone y se entiende que cualquier ser 
humano tiene el derecho innato a elegir y creer en una falsa 
religión.
Esto NO SOLO ES FALSO COMO PROPOSICION
 RELIGIOSA,
es una contradicción en sí misma para 
cualquiera que se supone que creen en la única y 
verdadera iglesia de Cristo"
Malachi Martin, Las
 llaves de esta sangre pg. 670-671.

¿Y quién decide qué es lo que es bueno o 
quién tiene la verdad? 
Roma y el papa deciden
 cual es la verdad y quien tiene la verdad.
 
¿Qué cree usted?

Posición de la Iglesia Católica sobre quien tiene la verdad

La Palabra de Dios es en realidad lo que determina que
 es bueno y cual es la verdad en Cristo Jesús, no el papa
 o la iglesia católica o cualquier otra institución.

Hemos visto que el papa habla de libertad de conciencia o de libertad religiosa en 
el contexto de la "verdad" según la define la iglesia católica. Esta "libertad" en la 
"verdad" de Roma es la fórmula que Juan Pablo II propone a todas las 
sociedades del mundo.
Cuando Juan Pablo II habla de libertad de conciencia, 
de pensamiento y de religión lo hace en este contexto para el "bien común".  
En los medios de comunicación se publican continuamente expresiones de Juan 
Pablo II, que en la superficie aparentan defender los derechos de libertad de 
conciencia y religión. El que no ha leido todas sus expresiones en el pasado y 
en el presente, piensa que verdaderamente el papa promueve la libertad de 
conciencia y libertad religiosa que la Constitución Norteamericana ha brindado 
a sus ciudadanos por muchos años. Pero nadie se engañe. La libertad de 
conciencia y religión que Juan Pablo II promueve, es solamente un disfráz,
detrás de la cual se encuentra la "verdad" de Roma.
  Ejemplo de algunas 
expresiones recientes que aparentan una verdadera libertad de conciencia 
y libertad  religiosa:

El Papa hace sus propuestas para la Carta Europea de Derechos Humanos
"....continuó diciendo el Santo Padre a los representantes legislativos europeos.
Es más, el poder reconoce que está constituido para salvaguardar este dominio, 
que tiene por centro de gravedad la persona humana. De este modo, la sociedad 
reconoce que está al servicio de la persona en sus aspiraciones naturales para 
que pueda realizarse como ser personal y social al mismo tiempo. Estas 
aspiraciones, inscritas en su naturaleza, constituyen al mismo tiempo 
derechos inherentes a la persona, como el derecho a la vida, a la
integridad física y psíquica, a la libertad de conciencia, de pensamiento
y de religión»....

Apoyo papal a la integración europea
En su discurso, Juan Pablo II alabó también el proceso de unión europea y se
congratuló por la decisión europea de abrirse a la incorporación de nuevos 
Estados del continente que desean colaborar con ella, de modo que llegue a 
ser lo más amplia posible. Se trata de una senda que va en armonía con la
visión del Papa del viejo continente que como ha repetido en muchas ocasiones 
deber respirar con sus dos pulmones, el oriental y el occidental. Por lo que se
refiere a la reforma de las estructuras de decisión europeas, afirmó: «Ha 
llegado probablemente la hora --añadió-- de hacer un balance de lo conseguido 
en una estructura conjunta simplificada y más vigorosa, capaz de encontrar la
fórmula justa para satisfacer las aspiraciones de sus ciudadanos y
asegurar el servicio al bien común". Zenit 24 de septiembre, 2000

 

"Seguramente muchas veces te habrás también preguntado: ¿porqué hay tantas religiones?,
¿cuál es la verdadera?; ¿irá al cielo un indígena que nunca ha oído hablar de Jesús?..."
Catholic Net-Oct. 12, 2000.

¿Hay que ser católico para salvarse?

"....Por los Evangelios sabemos que Cristo quiso continuar su acción salvadora
por medio de la Iglesia....Por lo cual, resulta claro que sólo la salvación se encuentra
en la Iglesia
....Para profundizar-Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica, nn. 846-856
-Sagrada Congregación para la doctrina de la fe, Declaración "Dominus Iesus" Sobre
la unicidad y la universalidad salvífica de Jesucristo y de la Iglesia
Catholic Net-Oct. 12, 2000.

Dominus Iesus - La Iglesia y las Religiones en Relación a la Salvación

"Ciertamente, las diferentes tradiciones religiosas contienen y ofrecen elementos de religiosidad,
que proceden de Dios,[85] y que forman parte de "todo lo que el Espíritu obra en los hombres y en
la historia de los pueblos, así como en las culturas y religiones".[86] De hecho algunas oraciones y
ritos pueden asumir un papel de preparación evangélica, en cuanto son ocasiones o pedagogías
en las cuales los corazones de los hombres son estimulados a abrirse a la acción de Dios.[87]
ellas, sin embargo no se les puede atribuir un origen divino ni una eficacia salvífica
ex opere operato,
que es propia de los sacramentos cristianos"
Catholic Net