Faithful Catholics know that the first step toward heaven is a personal and loving relationship with Jesus Christ.

Faithful Catholics know that the first step toward heaven is a personal and loving relationship with Jesus Christ. “Morality should be inspired by an encounter with Jesus Christ, and not by a series of indications: It is an encounter of love,” said the Cardinal Ratzinger, the Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in a congress on John Paul II’s encyclical “Veritatis Splendor.”