Religious belief and scientific truths are all part of
the same ultimate truth, says José Funes, head of the Vatican Observatory
Not exact matches
If, as Christians believe, all
truth ultimately comes from God through Jesus Christ, then all roads of worldly enquiry should lead back towards the
same ultimate source and conclusion, the
truth of the Word.
the
truth of God can be or has been captured in the ex-cathedra utterances of the bishop of Rome — the idolatry of many who like to pretend that
ultimate truth has been captured in the ecumenical councils of the early church, in the historic creeds, or in the «unbroken tradition of the catholic faith,» which usually is the
same thing as the speaker's special prejudice.
For whatever the proximate and historical sources of that
truth may have been, its
ultimate source is God, the
same God whom Jesus called Father; else the confession of the oneness of God is empty.
The theologian describes that constancy by saying that God is the
ultimate source of all
truth and God is one: He is the
same yesterday, today and for ever.
What we do argue is that the human search for knowledge of the
ultimate metaphysical
truths, that is, for the reality on which all things depend for their being, and the Christian attempt to clarify what we have found disclosed to us in Christ, are two complementary sides of the
same story, the story of God's self - disclosure to the mind of man.
«Since it has been entrusted to the Church to reveal the mystery of God, Who is the
ultimate goal of man, she opens up to man at the
same time the meaning of his own existence, that is, the innermost
truth about himself... For by His incarnation the Father's Word assumed, and sanctified through His cross and resurrection, the whole of man, body and soul, and through that totality the whole of nature created by God for man's use» (41).
It is in the freedom before the challenge of
ultimate Truth and penultimate
truths, human persons are equal, an equality that should bc recognized by the law of the state so long as a person respects the
same freedom of other persons.