As we celebrate Independence Day, Tony invites us to reflect upon how we understand the gift of freedom that has been won and defended for us by so many from a Christian perspective, and how the Gospel calls us to exercise the freedom we have been given.
Endnotes:
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, 199.
United States, Declaration of Independence.
Genesis 1:26-27
United States, Declaration of Independence.
United States, The Bill of Rights.
Link to disclosed information regarding the Richmond Memo can be found here.
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, 200.
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, 138.
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, 135.
John 8:31-32.
St. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter, Redemptor Hominis, 8.
Galatians 5:1
Galatians 5:13
Galatians 5:19-21
Galatians 5:16
Galatians 5:14
Galatians 5:22-23
Galatians 5:24
United States, Constitution of the United States.
John 10:10
Romans 8:28
President Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address.
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.