In view of this deplorable state of fairs. this existing spirit of unbelief, this first broadcast on the thew series of Catholic Hour talks Bwill establish the fact that faith in Bod and in His law as given us by divine revelation is not only not against our human reason, but that fre tually it is better to believe than o disbelleve.—and by better I mean lore rational and more profitable.
We have been speaking about losing; our faith in our fellow men, ut preci what is faith? Kat general might be defined or described as {he intellectual admis-Sion that a certain thing is true because, although we have not seen the reality ourselves, we reasonably admit that the one who has told us is reliably informed, and does not intend to deceive us, Hundreds of millions of people here in China, for instance, have never seen nd.^ never will see Europe, méri¢a, Australia or Africa; yet by lieving what others have said or written about those places, many people in this country have a considerable. amount -of aceuréte information about those as yet unseen lands. They have obtained this information through faith, reliance on {he truth of another's testimony. But lets become a wee bit more fundamental.
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