ONLY incurable romantics, or the excessively self-indulgent, will disagree that the exercise of freedom must be balanced with the virtues of responsibility and prudence.

Sympathy with last week’s Charlie Hebdo murder victims in Paris by two Muslim extremists has unreasonably encompassed the case of Carlos Celdran, hater of Roman Catholicism and earnest Roman Catholics who has become a kind of icon of freedom in some circles after doing an outrageous deed in September 2010.

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