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The Catholic Church is the longest-enduring institution in the world. Beginning with the first Christians and continuing in our present day, the Church has been planted in every nation on earth. The Catholic Church claims Jesus Christ himself as her founder, and in spite of heresy from within and hostility from without, she remains in the twenty-first century the steadfast guardian of belief in...

being the culmination of this—His persecutors unwittingly served the Father’s purposes. The Jews rebelled against Rome three times in the first and second centuries after Christ, but Christianity preached the coming of a nonpolitical Kingdom, one that is in some ways already present, based no longer on ancestry but on purity of heart, although open even to sinners. The ways of the Kingdom are in many respects the reverse of those of human society—triumph emerges only from defeat, suffering is the
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