29 março 2008

wide divergence

"There is a wide divergence, an irreconciliable disagreement, between the political notions of the modern world and that which is essentially the system of the Catholic Church. It manifests itself particularly in their contradictory views of liberty and of the functions of the civil power. The Catholic notion, defining liberty not as the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought, denies that general interests can supersede individual rights."
(Acton, op. cit. p. 613) .

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