Christianity was born as plural. Like God.
Catholicism tends to the Law, protestantism tends to Liberty.
Conscience of the individual is the ultimate judge of acting.
The works of Law do not save (Galati 2,16; Romani 3,20), but the Law was not abolished (Matthew 5,17).
“…the fortress is love that bears everything easily just because it loves; justice is love that only serves the beloved, so that it orders the rest carefully…”: s.Agostino, De moribus ecclesiae catholicae.
“if then you do not have the time of investigating on all the holy pages, of penetrating the secrets of the Holy Scriptures, about charity, on which everything is founded. In this way you will possess even what you have not learnt… you will have known what you have not known yet. In brief what you understand about the Scriptures is charity revealed to you, and what you do not know is charity still hidden to you”: s.Agostino, Ser. 350, 2.
«Sacco and Vanzetti» (1927), pen-and-ink brushing by Gorge Grosz. The statue of Liberty, filth with blood, holds an electric chair. Instead of the torch.
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