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Let there be more street justice. The Jєωdicial system don't render it.
Article 3. Whether it is lawful for a private individual to kill a man who has sinned?(. . .)On the contrary, Augustine says (De Civ. Dei i) [Can. Quicuмque percutit, caus. xxiii, qu. 8: "A man who, without exercising public authority, kills an evil-doer, shall be judged guilty of murder, and all the more, since he has dared to usurp a power which God has not given him."
Every sin we can prevent, no matter how venial, is a great thing for the interests of Jesus. We can see how great a thing it is, if we remember that if we could shut Hell forever, save all the souls that are in it, empty Purgatory and make all the men and women on earth persevering saints, equal to St. Peter and St. Paul, by telling one little (and such a little!) lie, we might not do so on any account; for God's glory would suffer more by that little lie, than it would gain by all the rest. What a work then will it be for the interests of Jesus to prevent one mortal sin! Yet how easy! If every night, before we go to sleep, we begged our dear Lady to offer up to God the Precious Blood of her dear Son for grace to hinder one mortal sin, somewhere in the world, during that night, and then renewed the same offering in the morning for the hours of daylight, surely such an offering, and by such hands, could not fail to win the grace desired; and then each one of us might probably hinder 730 mortal sins every year; and if a thousand of us made these offerings, and persevered in them for twenty years, why, it would give none of us any trouble, and to say nothing of the merit we should gain, here would be more than fourteen million mortal sins prevented; and if all the members of the Confraternity did it, you would have to multiply it again by ten. Ah! at this rate the interests of Jesus would prosper, and how happy, how immensely happy should we be!