The church is not primarily a political organisation.
We’re a religious organisation.
There’s a much greater opportunity.
Cardinal George Pell
(bumble bee visits a purple cone flower/ Julie Cook / 2021)
caricature:
noun: caricature; plural noun: caricatures
a picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking
characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.
verb: caricature; 3rd person present: caricatures; past tense:
caricatured; past participle: caricatured; gerund or present participle:
caricaturing make or give a comically or grotesquely exaggerated representation
of (someone or something).
“True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society,
which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever
and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality.
It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize
their lives with no reference to moral values,
and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection
and advancement of ethical values.
Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.”
Pope John Paul II
cookiecrumbstoliveby 
You have shared a great passage from Pope John Paul II. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. A caricature of freedom is not the real thing! For one thing is makes insignificant responsibility and accountability which are necessary for a free state.
Your post brought a smile to my face as I have this same quote in a draft post just waiting to be published, giggles! Now…if only the time would present itself to dust it off and finish. Hugs to you for the reminder. 💗 (PS- JPII was such a holy man.)
He was my hero from the day they announced his name from the balcony in 1978