Conclusion: We now have our roadmap through the science of Fundamental Theology. In the next article, we will begin our study of the treatise on the “True Religion.”
(LifeSiteNews) — There is a science that demonstrates – beyond all reasonable doubt – that the Catholic religion is true, and that assent to its truths is reasonable. The first part of this series discussed the teaching of the Roman Pontiffs on the “motives of credibility,” those “wonderful and shining proofs” that “convince the human reason in the clearest way” that the Catholic Church has indeed received a revelation from God and practices the true religion. The previous article explained that the truth of the Catholic religion can be recognized in a “common sense” way by those who encounter the Catholic Church for, as John Henry Newman wrote, “she bears upon her the tokens of divinity, which come home to any mind at once, which has not been possessed by prejudice, and educated in suspicion.” [1] However, Newman continued, “it is possible to analyze the arguments and draw up in form the great proof, on which her claims rest.” The science of Fundamental Theology draws up this …