A final figure that helps strengthen the idea that conscience and faith are connected to each other in a cycle that helps feed the other, and in a way creates Goodness is John Henry Newman, who states,
If the cause of these emotions does not belong to this visible world, the Object to which his perception is directed must be Supernatural and Divine; and thus the phenomena of Conscience, as a dictate, avail to impress the imagination with the picture of a Supreme Governor, a Judge, holy, just, powerful, all-seeing, retributive, and is the creative principle of religion, as the Moral Sense is the principle of ethics.
What Newman is stating here is the argument that when one listens to their conscience, they are actually receiving and interpreting
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In his address to the University of Louvain, Romero emphasizes the importance of the poor to the Church and the Catholic Tradition, “It is the poor who tells us what the world is, and what the church’s service to the world should be.” Here, Romero asserts that the preferential treatment to the poor is not to exclude those who would not be considered poor, but to allow the church to amend itself to better serve the world it is. Romero furthers this idea later in his statement, “I am not speaking of a universal incarnation. This is impossible. I am speaking of an incarnation that is preferential and partial: incarnation in the world of the poor.” In this statement Romero perfectly states the reason the Poor is given preferential treatment, as in them one should God and the chance to give unconditional love to that incarnation, especially when it cannot be reciprocated. Romero also goes on in his relation to how through the poor one can see and love God in his use of the story of Moses in Exodus. Explaining how those these stories were made long ago, the still resonate with so many people living in destitute, as it is said in Exodus, “The cry of the sons of Israel have come to me, and I have witnessed the way in which the Egyptians oppress them.” This statement still resonates with today’s oppressed because it validates to them that their struggle is seen and the Church will take it as a responsibility to help. Romero recognizes the importance of such promises and supports that the Catholic Tradition’s use of justice is to help the Poor whoever they may