Catholicism: “That’s as sane as people can get”

Catholicism: “That’s as sane as people can get”

He also gives one of the most profound answers to the question “Do you believe in God?”

As Frank Sheed wrote in his book Theology and Sanity, first published in 1947, “The soul consists of two parts, the will and the intellect. The will is to love, the intellect is to understand.” The man who uses his intellect in religion is using it to see what is truly there. The alternative to seeing what is there is either not seeing what is there, and this is darkness, or seeing what is not there, and this is error.”

The Catholic Church, uniting faith and reason, intellect and will, helps pilgrims on earth to avoid the error, superstition, and purposelessness of pure rationalism.

Now, Dr. Jordan Peterson re-articulates that same message. What will you do with it?

Bill Moran is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Calabasas, California, and the founder of WhyCatholic.com. He is the author of Catholics Are Wrong… Says Who? and Born Again: The Whole Story, and has spoken to parishes, OCIA groups, and Catholic organizations for 30 years. He was recently a guest on Personally Speaking with Msgr. Jim Lisante.