تمنى البطريرك الماروني الكاردينال مار بشارة بطرس الراعي أن "يقتدي المسؤولون السياسيون عندنا بضمير قداسة البابا بنديكتوس المهني المسؤول"، سائلا إياهم …

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WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - Secretary of State John Kerry chose an interesting place to deliver his first foreign policy address. The former Massachusetts senator spoke at the University of Virginia. He was introduced by the university's president, Teresa Sullivan. Dr. Sullivan noted that the university's founder, Thomas Jefferson, had served as the first Secretary of State.
 
Unlike today's foreign policy elites, Mr. Jefferson thought religious freedom was fundamental to our political liberties. He authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which he introduced into the state's General Assembly in 1779. It was a world historical event. When James Madison, Jefferson's loyal lieutenant, pressed that bill through to adoption in 1786,  Jefferson was serving as this country's second Minister Plenipotentiary to France. He took pains to have the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom translated into French and circulated widely in Europe. All of this is worth noting because religious freedom is not on the back burner in this administration. It ain't even in the kitchen.