By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - This is not to say that Catholics exercise no judgment. No, they have to decide for themselves whether or not the Catholic Church... is the true Church originally created nearly two millennia ago by Jesus Christ. But once they decide, as Newman himself decided when he was in his mid-forties, that the Church of Rome is the true Church, they renounce any right to judge the doctrines of the Church. From that point on, they listen and receive.