According to Dr. John Bergsma: The key to receiving lasting glory is Jesus Himself, and the center of Jesus’ mission is His freely laying down His life for the sake of us sinners. Leaders of this world, Jesus says, exercise leadership for their own benefit. This is the way Satan understands leadership—for the benefit of the one in authority.

During your life, you may have had the above question. To help us answer it I would like to quote from the ‘Dialogue’ of St. Catherine of Siena. This is a private revelation that Catherine received from the Lord. As a private revelation, it is not necessary for a Catholic to believe but has been judged worthy to believe by the Church and containing no doctrinal error. Put more colloquially, we are free to believe it if it spurns us on to love God more and to set it aside if it does not.

Some years ago I was on a plane flight where I struck up a conversation with the young man next to me. He was a college student at the University of Arizona. After discussing a number of topics about family and personal interests the conversation turned towards faith. He informed me that he used to be Catholic but was no longer practicing. When I inquired as to why he left the practice of his faith, he responded (to my frustrated dismay), “I got really into science.”