Excerpt from The Infallibility of the Pope: A Lecture

Ideally, what is Christianity?

Christianity means the union of man with the divinity, the soul, and the body of our Lord Jesus Christ. It means that man is in this life united to the intellect and the spirit of God. It means that man knows, as creature, whatever is true of God, in so far as it has been revealed by Himself, and that he knows this certainly, definitely, infallibly. It can mean nothing less, for if it does, then Christianity has failed in its object If God has died upon a Cross to teach man truth, and man cannot know that truth, then Christianity is the greatest of failures. That God should be our Teacher, yet fail to teach, that He should annex salvation to the sovereign necessity of an integral and implicit faith, and that He should have died upon a Cross to accomplish both the revelation and its perfect acceptance by ourselves, and yet that we should be unable to know, for a certainty, what that revelation was and is - is the most patent incongruity and folly that the human mind can possibly conceive.

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