| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Faith |
 | | And though faith is so essentially of "the unseen" it may be that the peculiar function of the light of faith, which we have seen to be so necessary, is in some sort to afford us, not indeed vision, but an instinctive appreciation of the truths which are declared to be revealed. |
| | If we regard faith precisely as an assent elicited by the intellect, then this bare faith is the same habit numerically as when the informing principle of charity is added to it, but it has not the true character of a moral virtue and is not a source of merit. |
| | Indifferentism in all its phases was condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus Quanta cura: in Prop. |
| www.newadvent.org /cathen/05752c.htm (6900 words) |
