The U.S. bishops issue a call to action to defend religious liberty and urged laity to work to protect Religious Freedom.

The U.S Bishops outline their position in a new document, “Our First, Most Cherished Freedom.”, developed by the Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

In the document the bishops proclaim:

What we ask is nothing more than that our God-given right to religious liberty be respected. We ask nothing less than that the Constitution and laws of the United States, which recognize that right, be respected.

As bishops we seek to bring the light of the Gospel to our public life, but the work of politics is properly that of committed and courageous lay Catholics. We exhort them to be both engaged and articulate in insisting that as Catholics and as Americans we do not have to choose between the two. There is an urgent need for the lay faithful, in cooperation with Christians, Jews, and others, to impress upon our elected representatives the importance of continued protection of religious liberty in a free society.

Read the Complete Document, “Our First, Most cherished Freedom”

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