The problem for Catholics from the very beginning of Church History is that they have to work with nature and accept the fact that all aspects of nature have something good about them. How do Catholics sort out the good from the bad? How can they be open to everything valuable coming from the ancient world without glorifying everything negative as well? Dr. John Rao argues that Catholic difficulties in the modern world come to a large degree from not realizing that they were deceived by "word merchants" into welcoming the bad with the good. Taken from: My End is My Beginning: The Analogy of Contemporary Christianity With its Ancient Setting - 2001 VonHildebrand Institute