[22] Agrippa said to Festus, "I too should like to hear this man." He replied, "Tomorrow you will hear him." [23] The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great ceremony and entered the audience hall in the company of cohort commanders and the prominent men of the city and, by command of Festus, Paul was brought in.
(CCC 2257) Every society's judgments and conduct reflect a vision of man and his destiny. Without the light the Gospel sheds on God and man, societies easily become totalitarian. (CCC 2254) Public authority is obliged to respect the fundamental rights of the human person and the conditions for the exercise of his freedom. (CCC 2255) It is the duty of citizens to work with civil authority for building up society in a spirit of truth, justice, solidarity, and freedom. (CCC 2256) Citizens are obliged in conscience not to follow the directives of civil authorities when they are contrary to the demands of the moral order. "We must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).
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