Escriva showed me that there is freedom in the Catholic Church Tags: Church, Freedom Escriva showed me something that I would have never believed, that there is freedom in the Catholic Church. What I thought before about the Catholic Church was the usual clichés: coercion, narrow-mindedness, “you must…” Through Escriva’s writings and video films of get-togethers I perceived what I could see afterwards: the love for freedom that is in his words. Escriva loved freedom in the same way as God did. http://www.josemariaescriva.info/article/escriva-showed-me-that-there-is-freedom-in-the-catholic-church