Political liberty is important. It provides the opportunity for a vital sense of life where everyone is free to realize his potential. Although many have made sacrifices to gain or preserve this liberty, and many are grateful to enjoy its benefits, the world's people are still subject to laws more oppressive than those generated politically.
Laws of matter bind those who believe in them to the limitations of matter, even while the believers search these laws in the hope of finding freedom. Strides have been made toward overcoming limitations of time and space. Work that once took years can now be done in minutes. Yet material research has failed to make people feel safe as they walk the streets, to give them confidence that the money they earn is sufficient for their needs, to assure them their jobs will not be eliminated, to bring peace to their relationships with others, to guarantee the purity of the air they breathe, or to make certain their health.
St. Paul wrote, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." He was referring to the Christ, the true idea of God which Christ Jesus manifested. Paul described our liberation: "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."II Cor. 3:17, 18;
