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Freedom of conscience and religion “concerns man both individually and socially”.⁸⁶¹ Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2105. The right to religious freedom must be recognized in the juridical order and sanctioned as a civil right; ⁸⁶² Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Declaration Dignitatis Humanae, 2: AAS 58AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 58 (1966) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1966), 930-931; Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2108. nonetheless, it is not of itself an unlimited right. The just limits of the exercise of religious freedom must be determined in each social situation with political prudence, according to the requirements of the common good, and ratified by the civil authority through legal norms consistent with the objective moral order. Such norms are required by “the need for the effective safeguarding of the rights of all citizens and for the peaceful settlement of conflicts of rights, also by the need for an adequate care of genuine public peace, which comes about when men live together in good order and in true justice, and finally by the need for a proper guardianship of public morality”.⁸⁶³ Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Declaration Dignitatis Humanae, 7: AAS 58AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 58 (1966) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1966), 935; Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2109.