The Church and Freedom

From The Catholic Church: Defender of Freedom?:

"Question: name history’s greatest defender of freedom.
Answer: the Catholic Church.

"You won’t often hear that. But it’s true. You can start with the Catholic doctrine of man’s free will—a doctrine that puts the Church at odds with the world, including many of your professors. It is the world that tells us the fate of nations and individuals is determined by race, economics, history, psychology, genetics, fate, astrology, the will of Allah, or even predestination—anything but the free-will decisions of individuals with regard to the truth.

"Secularists and liberals, of course, take a very different view of freedom; they take Biblical sins, like homosexuality, and make them human rights, while making up their own list of secular sins—like smoking, condomless sex, riding a bicycle without a helmet—and prohibiting them."

[The article above is from ASCC Faith Essentials, "a monthly electronic publication for all college students -- those who are Catholic, curious about Catholicism, or just looking for solid Catholic viewpoints -- and even for those out of college or not yet in college looking to learn about the Church!"]