What does it mean to be a Catholic?

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In a discussion on hiring non-Catholic teachers with my kids’ Catholic school principal, he insisted that being a Catholic means to love our neighbour. When I brought up Catholic doctrine, he claimed that love must trump doctrine every time. When I suggested that love and doctrine are married to one another, he told me I am wrong. Am I?
 
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First of all, love and doctrine are not opposed to each other. Doctrine is defined as that which is taught. The Church’s doctrine is all about the greatest expression of love that has ever taken place on this earth: our Lord’s passion in which God demonstrated His inifinite, divine love in a human way that we can understand. What He taught us about love is that it is not measured by good feelings, but by SACRIFICE. Catholics are to recognize how much they love others by how willing they are to put themselves out for them. The sacraments, the moral teachings, the disciplines all flow from Good Friday. That day is the center of history and the center of the Church by way of the Eucharist. To not understand this, is to not understand the Catholic religion.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
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