The Debt to the Wise and the Foolish

I hear write a reflection on a verse from St. Paul.  Note however, that I am not a professional Catholic Theologian, nor a priest; this is my best understanding of the faith and a work of my own spiritual reflection. Should what I say seem to conflict with what the Church teaches, then either I have erred or at least, I have not been adequately clear in my wording. In either case, it is the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church whom I consider authoritative above all else among human persons, only Divine persons being more authoritative than him, and so him, and those bishops who teach in union with him, and so those many documents produced by this great Magisterium, especially the Catechism, are all things I take to be more authoritative than anything I might say. Thus again, if what I say bellow seems inconsistent or in tension with what is present in those documents; know that this will be in my mind a mistake on my part; and that if you find such a tension, I advise you to favor wh...

A bit more than a month ago, Charlie Kirk, when conversing with Michael Knowles, argued that our goal should be to bring people to Jesus not to Catholicism, to which Michale Knowles asked in reply, 'what's the difference?' Kirk responded that your goal should not be to bring people to a specific sect of Christianity, but to bring people to The Cross. The issue with this line of thought though is rather simple; there were many people at the Cross, some were faithful, like Mary and St. John, but others were not, like the Pharisees and Roman Soldiers, we don't want people to be at the foot of The Cross for no reason, nor for a bad reason. We want to bring 'their hearts' to Jesus, and there is a right way to do this, and a wrong way to do this. Jesus himself said: "Where your treasure is, there your heart shall be" and so we want to bring people to 'treasure' Jesus, and what is it to treasure something? Well the example the Bible gives us of this i...