Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I.
“We should be concerned as well about the State overreaching its proper authority, which is limited to the civil order. Neither the church nor the state ‘own’ the institution of marriage. The state has a right to supervise but not to redefine an institution it did not create. This tendency for the government to claim for itself authority over all areas of human experience flows from the secularization of our culture. If God cannot be part of public life, then the state itself plays God. There are many paths to total state control of life — fascism, totalitarianism, communism. In the United States, the path is labeled ‘protection of individual rights.’” (Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago, Catholic New World, 6/9/2013 column)
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