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Why be Catholic?

James V. Schall, S.J., Crisis

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

To be Catholic is to embrace the long tradition of the Church: the apostolic succession and the magisterium. It is not to be a modern heretic working inside the Church to accommodate Catholic teaching to the whims of the contemporary world.

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