“We cannot do without a view, and we put up with an illusion, when we cannot get a truth.”
There are some things within the domain of real knowledge—that is, facts—which can only be revealed by God.
All things are from our “Eternal King,” who blesses our studies and arts, laws and societies, and offers his “co-operation.”
Religious truth is not only a portion, but a condition of general knowledge.
Theology is the foundation and the glue without which all other disciplines of knowledge fall into obscurity, confusion, and unreality.
Mary, immaculately conceived and free from all concupiscence, did not have a mind darkened by sin. She could clearly perceive the good objectively.
Theology, the science of discerning God’s truth, is, in the classical phrase, the “Queen of the sciences.”
If there is a Supreme Being, then theology is the Supreme Science.
Theology is “…the subject-matter of a science, far wider and more noble than any of those which are included in the circle of secular Education.”
The Church aims to educate the nations in the fullness of truth–to give them first faith, then civilization.