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Fail in this call and you are damned.

Anyone Catholic who is not about the business of evangelization might never entertain a serious hope of the beatific Vision.

Those words do not originate with Church Militant — although we wholeheartedly agree, which is why we are presenting them to you. They come from Fr. John Hardon, an old-school Jesuit who died in 2000 here in Detroit, despised by the modernist clique that runs the archdiocese here.

Fr. Hardon has been named a servant of God, the first step on the road to sainthood. The holy priest made no bones about the extremely weighty responsibility Catholics bear when it comes to spreading the good news of salvation and the necessity of the Catholic Church.

In so saying and doing, he echoed the words of Our Lord: "To whom much is given, much will be demanded." Too few Catholics — even among those who know the Faith, sufficiently at least — either realize or accept the call of duty to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world.

There is almost zero missionary sense, much less zeal, for saving souls. And let's be very clear here: There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church. Yet way too many Catholics themselves are offended by that, anticipating the offense others will take at it.

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