writes here <\/a>on the direction our country is going. Among other things he comments on the prevailing tendency by Hilary Clinton and the Obama administration to change the term \u201cfreedom of religion\u201d to \u201cfreedom of worship.\u201d
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\u00a0\u201cFreedom of worship was guaranteed in the Constitution of the former Soviet Union,\u201d Cardinal George said. \u201cYou could go to church, if you could find one. The church, however, could do nothing except conduct religious rites in places of worship\u2014no schools, religious publications, health care institutions, organized charity, ministry for justice and the works of mercy that flow naturally from a living faith. All of these were co-opted by the government. We fought a long Cold War to defeat that vision of society.\u201d<\/i>
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By the way, lest any reader berate me for being \u201cpolitical\u201d, I guess if it\u2019s good enough for Cardinal George to comment on these matters publicly it\u2019s okay for me too.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardinal George writes here on the direction our country is going. Among other things he comments on the prevailing tendency by Hilary Clinton and the Obama administration to change the term \u201cfreedom of religion\u201d to \u201cfreedom of worship.\u201d\u00a0\u201cFreedom of worship was guaranteed in the Constitution of the former Soviet Union,\u201d Cardinal George said. \u201cYou could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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