Sixty million.
That’s the number of Roman Catholics in the United States. An impressive number, no doubt about it. But there are manymore non-Roman Catholic Christians who nevertheless fall into one of two categories: Roman or catholic.
You are one, or you are the other.
To say you are “Roman” is not to say you were born and raised in the capital of Italy. And to be identified as a “catholic” is not to be labeled as a follower of the pope. In fact, we’re talking “small c” catholic here, meaning “universal.”
So what does it mean to be Roman or to be catholic?
At the end of his book How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill points out that the entire world is divided into Romans and catholics. “The Romans are the rich and powerful,” he writes; people who run things their own way and must always accumulate more and more, because they believe in their guts that there will never be enough to go around. The catholics, on the other hand, are universalists — people who instinctively...
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