The Reign of Christ the King by Michael Davies

Author:Michael Davies [Davies, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TAN Books
Published: 2015-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

CIVIL LAW AND THE ETERNAL LAW

In his essay The Church and the Modern State, published in 1931 and referring specifically to the United States, Hilaire Belloc noted that laws declared invalid by the Catholic Church are not binding. He continued: "Where there is a conflict between the civil law and the moral law of the Catholic Church, members of the Catholic Church will resist the civil law and obey the law of the Church."6

At the risk of being repetitious, I will state once more that the teaching of the Church is that the terms "right" and "moral liberty" are synonymous. We can speak of a "right" only when its object is morally licit. The Popes, Pope Leo XIII in particular, taught time and time again that there can only be a true right—that is, the moral liberty—to choose that which is good and true. No human being can ever have a right to choose what is evil or false. To quote Pope Leo XIII, writing in Libertas humana:

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