Spiritual Quote of the Day (John Courtney Murray, on ‘The Erroneous Conscience,’ Freedom, and Tolerance)

"The erroneous conscience is endowed with internal personal freedom. It has the right not to be forced to abandon its religious convictions and practices and not to be coerced into acceptance of the true religious faith, against its own subjectively sincere mandate. It also has a right to reverence and respect on the part of others, and others have the duty of paying it reverence and respect. The respect, however, is not owed to the erroneous conscience as erroneous, since no respect is due to error, but to the man in error who is still endowed with that measure of human dignity which is synonymous with internal personal freedom. The duty here is therefore of the order of charity; its proper name is tolerance.”—American Jesuit theologian John Courtney Murray (1904-1967), The Problem of Religious Freedom (1965)