The Greatness of Catholicism

Norman Crypt, Canterbury Cathedral

H. W. Crocker III (author of the must-read Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church: A 2,000-Year History) writes,

With its divine foundation, sanction, and mission, nothing could be more glorious than the Catholic Church. But, of course, many people -- even many baptized Catholics -- don't see it that way.

Yet when the sins of men -- or secular material progress, or our own self-centeredness -- blind us to this, they blind us to everything. The Renaissance, a great Catholic moment, enlightened the world by seeing it afresh with both the light of faith and the light of classical civilization, which was Catholicism's seedbed. So, too, today, if we look on the world through truly Catholic eyes, we will find that the fog lifts, our perspectives grow deeper, and beauty and truth beckon above the puerility of mass popular culture.

What's so great about Catholicism? Here are ten things -- in countdown order -- to which one could easily add hundreds of others ...

Read all of H. W. Crocker's "ten great things about Catholicism" in What's So Great about Catholicism? [ht: Spirit Daily]