“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
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To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.