What Makes for Catholic?

Primarily we must try to actively know our faith, discovering what is to be believed and why it should be believed. We should find out about all the important doctrines and dogmas, so that we may be good representatives of the one, true, holy and apostolic Church. We must accept and trust in the authority of the Church (see Matt 16:17-20) for without an absolute authority everything becomes relative to the one who has the most power. Practicing the faith-the most difficult step- is the perennial task of the Catholic who continually tries to be Christ-like. To practice what is taught, to practice what we preach is always the greatest challenge. G. K. Chesterton’s famous adage that the greatest problem of the Catholic Church is Catholics laced and loaded with meaning and a call to sainthood-who each person was potentially made to be.