Millennial writer Mike Jordan Laskey  has a new article at NCR. He writes:

In other words, real freedom is self-gift instead of selfishness. It’s choosing the good of the other over your own pleasure. For Phil, growing in freedom meant a move from “I can do what I want” to “I can do what is right.”

Often, it seems like our American definition of freedom is closer to early-movie Phil’s than end-of-movie Phil’s. Catholics could help change that. We could bring our principle of the common good to the national conversation. We could tell stories about the heroes who understood real freedom, like the newly-declared martyr Oscar Romero, who stood with the poor and oppressed even though he knew it would cost him his life. And we could try our best follow their example, giving of ourselves in big and little ways, every day.

The full article can be read here.