Why I’m Catholic (Reason 2)

Kenneth Hynek • 25th Jan 2010 • Religion, Catholicism
Catholic Church, Catholicism, Dave Armstrong, Jesus, the Church

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From Dave Armstrong’s list:

I am a Catholic because I sincerely believe, by virtue of much cumulative evidence, that Catholicism is true, and that the Catholic Church is the visible Church divinely-established by our Lord Jesus, against which the gates of hell cannot and will not prevail (Mt 16:18), thereby possessing an authority to which I feel bound in Christian duty to submit.

The first thing to understand, I suppose, is that being Catholic is both a question of choice and of duty, and then in a way that allows the two concepts to interweave. To love and serve the Lord to the fullest extent (the real meaning of life) requires both the personal decision to strive for and pursue that goal, and also the understanding that as a creating being, one is duty-bound to love, serve, and obey the Creator and the Church His son established.