In 1965 Vatican Council II adopted the Declaration “Dignitatis Humanae”, which found religious freedom within Catholic Social Teaching, on the basis of these basic tenets: The right to religious freedom has its foundation in the very dignity of the human person as this dignity is known through the revealed word of God and by reason itself. This right of the human person to religious freedom is to be recognised in the constitutional law whereby society is governed and thus it is to become a civil right.