Erosion of religious freedom threatens Church and nation, warns DC Archbishop Wuerl

Catholic News Agency: “Archbishop Wuerl said that what is taking place across the country, which he himself has experienced in his own archdiocese, is that, ‘when you begin to address specific issues, whether they are life issues, marriage issues, whether they have to do with the definition of marriage or a whole range of very basic concerns,’ Catholics are now facing ‘the presumption that you do not have a right to express your religious convictions and you do not have a right to live out those convictions in those institutions which are a part of our Catholic faith tradition.’ . . .  The archbishop said that, once the balance shifts against the rights of freedom of religious expression, both on a personal level and on an institutional level, ‘we are going to find ourselves in a situation we’ve never faced before in the United States.’ He called it the ‘tip of the iceberg,’ saying that the erosion of the freedom of religious expression would spread across the Western world.”