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1- Broadly Protestant notions of justification are clearly taught by the Bible.
False! - Biblically, justification is solely through the willing keeping of the commandments, and repentance of our failures.
2- Pauline church government is authoritarian in some respects but is a distant cousin to the modern Magisterium.
Paul’s authoritarian tendencies are born of his deep studies in the scriptures, and are not arbitrary in any sense.
3 - NT (and OT) ethics support the implementation of the death penalty in ways that are alien to Francis’s ethical statements and implications.
NT ethics require forgiveness.
4 - Contra the post-Vatican II ethos, Christ and Paul are utterly unsympathetic to salvation for those who refuse to submit directly and openly to Christ and his Gospel.
Yeshua’s Gospel is Moses’ Torah. They are one and the same. Yehova’s grace permits forgiveness following confession and repentance, as described in John’s first epistle. This is not new to post crucifixion times. It is roughly what is called “baptism” in the English Bible. Salvation is only for those that endure in faith to the end.
Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the Law of Moses. (Acts 13:38,39)
Romans 3:20
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the Law. For the Law merely brings awareness of sin.
Romans 3:28
For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.
Romans 8:3
For what the Law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin.
Romans 10:4
Christ is the end of the Law, in order to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.
Galatians 2:16
know that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law, because by works of the Law no one will be justified.
Galatians 5:3,4
Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole Law. You who are trying to be justified by the Law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
Hebrews 7:19 (for the Law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.