By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - For many years, I found it hard to warm to St. Paul. I know I’m hardly the only one. St. Peter himself wrote: “His letters contain some things that are hard to understand.” An understatement, to say the least. And then, there are the consequences of that difficulty, “which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.” (2 Peter 3:13) Since the Protestant Reformation with its emphasis on sola fide, erroneously derived from Paul by isolating the phrase from other things he said ....