By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing - “What will this child be?”... He would be the last and greatest prophet, the herald of his cousin Jesus, the Messiah. But he would also be the man who calls for moral reform of Israel, who demands conversion: both John’s and Jesus’s first words at the start of their public ministries are identical: “Repent.”... And John is not just the “social justice” guy, demanding that tax collectors not fleece payers nor soldiers bully civilians. He is also the “culture warrior” guy who makes an issue out of the tetrarch’s invalid marriage.