What is our Catholic responsibility? It is
painfully obvious. Our duty is to know the truth revealed by Christ and taught
by His Church. Our duty is to live the truth, as Christ who is Truth Incarnate
showed us by His life on earth how we are to live in this passing world of
space and time. Our duty is to defend the truth, because we realize how
disastrous are the consequences of error and how blessed are the fruits of
possessing the truth. Our duty is to share the truth with others, because this
is the highest practice of charity, on which our salvation depends. Our duty is
to suffer for the truth. We are to rejoice as Christ tells us when people
oppose us, criticize us, and speak all kinds of calumny against us – in a word
– when we are persecuted for proclaiming the truth which God, who is Truth,
became man to reveal. Our Lord, Truth Incarnate, was crucified for proclaiming
in Palestine. Father John A. Hardon, S. J.
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