The latest fight to protect religious freedom in California does not look like it has anything to do with religion – but AB 84 is designed to “strangle” charter schools and take away parents’ rights to educate their children, a leader in citizen advocacy and religious freedom in California told a packed room at St. Raymond Parish Hall Tuesday evening.
Parental rights over the education of their children are a matter of religious freedom, social justice and protected by the U.S. Constitution, said two experts who spoke during Religious Freedom Week at Mater Dolorosa Parish.
In a letter to the local church community at Smyrna penned in the year before his death, the early second-century martyr St. Ignatius of Antioch writes, “Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude (of the people) also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.”
Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. It is the principal Christian celebration. It can be easy to over sentimentalize.