No, Colonel Sanders, you're wrong. From the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
422. What is justification?
Justification
is the most excellent work of God's love. It is the merciful and
freely-given act of God which takes away our sins and makes us just and
holy in our whole being. It is brought about by means of the grace of
the Holy Spirit which has been merited for us by the passion of Christ
and is given to us in Baptism. Justification is the beginning of the
free response of man, that is, faith in Christ and of cooperation with
the grace of the Holy Spirit.
423. What is the grace that justifies?
That
grace is the gratuitous gift that God gives us to make us participants
in his trinitarian life and able to act by his love. It is called habitual, sanctifying or deifying grace because it sanctifies and divinizes us. It is supernatural
because it depends entirely on God's gratuitous initiative and
surpasses the abilities of the intellect and the powers of human beings.
It therefore escapes our experience.
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