combine the idea of the Building of Justice with that of condemnation with-  
out any manner of defence..... It is  our task, like others, to represent   
authority in every form, and to give expression to the fact that we have to   
defend courageously the authority of justice as an important part of a   
ting power." Thus wrote the Minister of State , Dr. Hans Fra
 
                                                            
 
 
I am fully aware that I, as bishop and as exponent and defender of divinely  
 appointed justice and moral order, which gives to each individual those  
original rights and that liberty before which it is God's will that all  
human opposition must cease;  that I, like Minister Frank, am called to   
defend courageously the authority of justice and to condemn the undefended   
condemnation of innocent people as an injustice that cries out to Heaven.  
Christians|  The imprisionment of many innocent people without the   
opportunity of defence and without a court sentence; the case of two members  
 of the Cathedral Chapter who have been deprived of their liberty; the   
dissolution of the monasteries and the banishment of the innocent   
members of their orders, our brothers and sisters; all these things cause   
me today to recall publicly the old truth: "Justitia est fundeamentum   
regnorum", justice is the only secure foundation of every form of   
                        government.                         
 
                                                            
 
 
The right to live, to be unmolested, the right to liberty is an   
indispensable part of every ordered community life.  Certainly  
the State is justified in limiting this right of its citizens   
by way of punishment; but this authority the State only has   
vis-a-vis