The Roman Catholic Church has Unity... The Roman Catholic Church is Holy..... The Roman Catholic Church is Catholic. THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE POPE. Five Passages from Scripture... The Popes Claimed Infallibility. The Fathers and Doctors of the Church Recognized Papal Infallibility.. INTRODUCTION You are Catholic college students. In a few years you will be Catholic college graduates. Have you any idea of what that means? Do you realize that, as Catholic college men, you are expected in your home and on the street, with friends, strangers and even enemies, to be able to discuss intelligently the great truths of the Catholic Church? Do you realize that every time you converse on religion you are considered an authority because you are a Catholic college man? That what you say, how you say it, intelligently and with conviction, or hesitantly and doubtfully, you are doing the work of an Apostle or hampering the progress of the Church? As Catholic men you are expected to fight atheism, indifference to religion and attacks on the doctrines of your Church; to prove atheism is blasphemy; indifference to religion, suicide, and attacks on the Church, an attempt to undermine the work of the Redemption. In a word; whether you like it or not, you must share in Catholic Action. How important, then, that you be prepared to do your part honourably to spread the kingdom of God on earth! Such is the purpose of this course in the Foundations of Catholic belief. Read what Pope Pius XII said to a group of College graduates on June 20, 1941. "Will you not make yourselves the heralds of the Catholic truth? Will you not be the new apostles of the Gospel in the very midst of learned society and of the modern savants? Yes, this will be your apostolate, at the side of and in dependence on the ecclesiastical Hierarchy. But to carry out such a mission without danger to yourselves and yet with efficacy among others, it is necessary above all that there be no lack of equilibrium in your own minds and souls between your religious culture and your university |