Liberty, Equality, Fraternity novel and Religion & Literature

and Religion & Literature

” (Romano Guardini)

To speak and write worthily of the holy Heart of God’s own Mother one would need a heart of fire

in its essence

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity novel and Religion & LiteratureBy Fulton J. Sheen Liberty, equality, fraternity: slogan of the French Revolution and, in the words of R. H. Tawney, motto of a new world. In that new world three major systems bristle, each selecting its cornerstone from that motto. Liberalism, with its economic partner of capitalism, takes liberty; communism, equality; and Christianity, fraternity. The paradox of human affairs is that only Christianity, with its bonds of fraternal charity, makes