Declaratio de Libertate Religiosa

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Declaratio de Libertate Religiosa is the Latin title of the Second Vatican Council’s declaration *Dignitatis Humanae*, which articulates the Catholic Church’s teaching on the right to religious freedom.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic magisterial document
Second Vatican Council declaration
addresses corporate religious freedom of communities
individual religious freedom
limits of state authority in religious matters
public order as a limit to religious freedom
rights of parents in religious education of their children
rights of religious communities to organize and govern themselves
affirms civil right to religious freedom
immunity from coercion in religious matters
moral duty to seek the truth, especially religious truth
truth cannot impose itself except by virtue of its own truth
approvedBy Second Vatican Council
basisFor Catholic arguments for legal protection of religious liberty
belongsToGenre declaration
concerns human dignity
relationship between Church and state
religious freedom
developsDoctrineOf Catholic teaching on religious liberty
emphasizes harmony between religious freedom and the search for truth
limits of coercion by public authority in religion
respect for the human person in religious matters
hasDoctrinalWeight conciliar declaration
hasEnglishTitle Declaratio de Libertate Religiosa self-linksurface differs
surface form: Declaration on Religious Freedom
hasLatinTitle Declaratio de Libertate Religiosa self-link
hasOfficialTitle Dignitatis Humanae
influenced Catholic engagement with modern democratic states
post–Vatican II Catholic teaching on human rights
issuedBy Catholic Church worldwide
surface form: Roman Catholic Church
language Latin
partOf Second Vatican Council
promulgatedBy Pope Paul VI
recognizes right of religious communities to communicate with their members and authorities
right of religious communities to own property and manage institutions
right of religious communities to public worship
right of religious communities to teach and witness to their faith
relatedTo Gaudium et Spes
surface form: Second Vatican Council document Gaudium et Spes

Lumen Gentium
surface form: Second Vatican Council document Lumen Gentium

Nostra Aetate
surface form: Second Vatican Council document Nostra Aetate
subjectArea Catholic social teaching
ecclesiology
moral theology
teaches no one is to be forced to act against his or her conscience in religious matters
no one is to be prevented from acting according to conscience in religious matters within due limits
right to religious freedom based on the dignity of the human person
upholds duty of society and state to protect religious freedom
principle that religious freedom must be recognized in constitutional law

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Dignitatis Humanae officialName Declaratio de Libertate Religiosa
Documents of the Second Vatican Council hasPart Declaratio de Libertate Religiosa
this entity surface form: Declaration on Religious Freedom
Declaratio de Libertate Religiosa hasLatinTitle Declaratio de Libertate Religiosa self-link
Declaratio de Libertate Religiosa hasEnglishTitle Declaratio de Libertate Religiosa self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Declaration on Religious Freedom
Decree on Ecumenism relatedTo Declaratio de Libertate Religiosa
this entity surface form: Declaration on Religious Freedom Dignitatis Humanae