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By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing, June 9, 2025
Robert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His most recent books are Columbus and the Crisis of the West and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.
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Catholic means universal, everything. A big claim, a crazy claim to the world. And the believer who aspires to be fully Catholic – especially in a fragmented age like ours – has a demanding vocation. Probably the most common phrase one hears about the Faith these days is the need for “a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.” And this is true. And essential. There’s a lot packed into that short phrase. Jesus Himself told us: “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22: 36-40)Related posts
Vaticano_Mater_Ecclesiae. Deutsch: Darstellung Marias mit dem Kind an einer Fassade des Apostolischen Palastes in Rom; Bildunterschriften: "totus tuus" (lat., "ganz dein") und "Mater Ecclesiae" (lat., "Mutter der Kirche"); Wappen: Papstwappen Johannes Pauls II., das "M" steht für "Maria"... Date: May 2008. Author: Johannes Joas; cropped & shifted by Rabanus Flavus. ... Public domain I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain.
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