OK, I just read that 5 times and I still don't get it. WHAT are these distinctions all about? I'd love an answer of any kind, especially today, the anniversary of the four Church-women murdered in El Salvador in 1980. Whether my friend Ita Ford, MM, and her companions died  for "having confessed the Creed or for having done the works which Jesus commands with regard to one's neighbor" carries no distinction for me about the kind of lives they lived, nor the kind of death they endured.