(Dear readers: a perk of my Theology of Social Media course is that I can use my blog for assignments. Sweet action. This is a one-paragraph defense of the Catholic Christian faith. Here goes!)
We abide in a fast-pace, ever-changing world. Ever racier topics become mainstream news. What is the glue that holds it all together? Humanity. There is an objective nature of humanity that determines the truth and how we should react. This is reflected in the Catholic faith. The human heart recognizes the need for God and the love and mercy gifted to us from Him. The solution of the world for these needs is to gloss over and fill in with substitutes that are not the answers. The Catholic faith, however, sees through to the deepest of human needs and fills them, both because it is made up of human members, and so is familiar with human nature, and because it is divine, and can therefore most properly respond to yearnings and deep questions. It is the Catholic Church's divinity and humanity, antiquity and newness, and its access to grace that make the Church still relevant and necessary today.
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