Guilty or Not Guilty?

(Be sure to watch the video at the end of this post.)
You have probably been asked at some time in your life "If you were accused of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" A good question for any of us to ponder as we journey through life. This past weekend, while helping out at our parish's Confirmation class, this question was presented in a new way. "If you were accused of being a Catholic, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" What a great question. It was fun to discuss it with the high school sophomores that attended the Confirmation class. Most of them felt that they could indeed be convicted because they went to Catholic school, they attended Mass (most of the time), or because they were attending the Confirmation class. While none of these are bad reasons, by themselves they do not necessarily make a person Catholic.
Our Church exhorts all it's members to be "holy". One of the documents of Vatican II actually speaks of the "universal call to holiness". Whether a priest, a bishop, a nun or a lay person each and every Catholic is to have a relationship with God that becomes the center of their life and subsequently calls them "out" of the world. Certainly, we all have to live in the world and do our best to effect our culture in positive ways, but we are also supposed to take time away in order to listen to our God and renew our spirit.
Besides this call to holiness, and as an aid to it, the Catholic Church asks some specific things of its members - that they follow the precepts of the Church and that they engage in the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. In case you have forgotten what they are:

PRECEPTS OF THE CHURCH

1. Attend Mass on Sundays and on holy days of obligation, and rest from servile labor.
2. Confess your sins at least once a year.
3. Receive the sacrament of the Eucharist at least during the Easter season.
4. Observe the days of fasting and abstinence established by the Church.
5. Help provide for the needs of the Church.
6.  Observe the Church’s laws on marriage.

CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY

1. Feed the Hungry
2. Give drink to the thirsty
3. Clothe the naked
4. Shelter the homeless
5. Visit the sick
6. Ransom the captive (visit/assist those in prison)
7. Bury the dead

SPIRITUAL WORKS OF MERCY

1. Instruct the ignorant
2. Counsel the doubtful
3. Admonish sinners
4. Bear wrongs patiently
5. Forgive others willingly
6. Comfort the afflicted
7. Pray for the living and the dead

Based on these, could you be convicted of being Catholic?

Now, watch this video and decide how you would fare in this court:
Evidence