 Now, of course, we Catholics scratch our heads on this one. I mean, we know that God's grace is free. We know that it's God's grace that enables us to trust and enables us to obey. We know that. It doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter. Because you and I believe that righteousness is not something that is legally credited to us, but something God is working in us as we cooperate with his grace, we have embraced salvation by works.