The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

"92 THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS.no faith in the hearer unless there isunerring authority in the speaker an authority founded uponsuch certain knowledge as precludes the possibilityof falling into error on his part, and including suchunquestioned veracity as to prevent his deceivinghim who accepts his word.You admit infallible certainty in the physicalsciences ; why should ityou deny in the science ofsalvation? The mariner, guided by his compass,knows, amid the raging storm and the darkness ofthe night, that he is steering his course directly tothe city of his destination; and is not an infallibleguide as necessary to conduct you to the city of Godin heaven ?It isvery strange that the Catholic Church mustapologize to the world for simply declaring that shespeaks the truth, the whole truth, and nothing butthe truth.Children of the Catholic Church, give thanks- toGod for having made you members of that Communion in which you are preserved from all errorsin faith, and from all illusionin the practice of virtue. You are happily strangers to those interiorconflicts, to those perplexing doubts, and to thatfrightful uncertainty which distract the souls ofthose whose private judgmentis their only guide.You are not, like others, drifting helplessly oveithe ocean of uncertainty, and "carried about byevery wind of doctrine." You are not as blind