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By Philip Kosloski, Aleteia, Aug 26, 2020

God gave us freedom so that we may freely choose him and do what is true, good and beautiful.

Sometimes when we look at the world around us, it is tempting to question why God gave us freedom in the first place. From our point of view, it might seem better if everyone simply did the same thing and didn’t have to make difficult choices.However, God gave us freedom for a reason, and it is a gift we need to understand in order to use it properly.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains that “Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility” (CCC 1731).

Furthermore, we all possess “the possibility of choosing between good and evil, and thus of growing in perfection or of failing and sinning” (CCC 1732).  …

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