It is for cultural and religious groupings, in the freedom of acceptance which they presume, to develop in the social body, disinterestedly and in their own ways, those ultimate convictions on the nature, origin and end of man and society.
Illorum tantum coetuum, qui animi cultus et religionis vinculis coniunguntur, proprium est – salva, ut patet, libertate sodalium alere ac fovere, sine sui studio propriasque tenendo vias, in medio societatis corpore hasce certas ac definitas persuasiones, quae hominis societatisque naturam, originem ac finem respiciant.vatican.va vatican.va