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Saint Paul by Diego Velázquez, 1616 [Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona]
By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing, August 4, 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 The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecution of Christians in the Twenty-First Century, Columbus and the Crisis of the West , and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.
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, it’s been even harder for a Catholic to approach the “chosen vessel,” the great evangelizer of the gentiles.Related posts
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