The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

""UNITY OF THE CHURCH. 31He shall come, the Spirit of truth, He shall teachyou all And truth." so the Church proposes thedoctrines of faith, such as they came from the lipsof Christ, and as the Holy Spirit taught them to theApostles at the birth of the Christian law doctrineswhich know neither variation nor decay.Hence, whenever it has been denned that anypoint of doctrine pertained to the Catholic faith, itwas always understood that this was equivalent tothe declaration that the doctrine in question hadbeen revealed to the Apostles, and had come down tous from them, either by Scripture or tradition. Andas the acts of all the Councils, and the history ofevery definition of faith evidently show, it wasnever contended that a new revelation had beenmade, but every inquiry was directed to this onepoint whether the doctrine in question was contained in the Sacred Scriptures or in the Apostolictraditions.A revealedtruth frequently has a very extensivescope, and is directed against error under its manychanging forms. Nor is it necessary that those whoreceive this revelation in the first instance, should beexplicitly acquainted with its full import, or cognizant of all its bearings. Truth never changes ;it isthe same now, yesterday, and forever, in itself; butour relations towards truth may change, for thatwhich is hidden from us to-day may become knownto us to-morrow. It often happens," says St. Augustine,that when it becomes necessary to defend