Reality is otherwise, as we discern in the dawning light. What had seemed to hold us fast was itself held fast by the invisible connections to our transcendent source. In that realization we recognize the central intellectual role of a Catholic university. It is nothing less than to preserve the faith that is capable of sustaining the life of reason. Physics does not utilize faith in its methodology but it cannot establish all the conditions of reliability in the absence of faith.
All physics is Catholic to the extent that it rests ultimately on faith.
David Walsh, professor of politics, is author of Growth of the Liberal Soul published by University of Missouri Press . All contents copyright 1997. The Catholic University of America, Office of Public Affairs.