What Yield the Deposit of Faith?
Perspectives on Catechetics by Sheila G. Liaugminas Sanity, remember, does not mean living in the same world as everyone else; it means living in the real world. But some of the most important elements in the real world can be known only by the revelation of God, which it is theology’s business to study. Lacking this knowledge, the mind must live a half-blind life, trying to cope with a reality most of which it does not know is there. This is a wretched state for an immortal spirit, and pretty certain to lead to disaster. “There is a good deal of disaster around at this moment”, wrote Frank Sheed in Theology and Sanity. At the very least, there is as much disaster around today as there was in 1946 when Frank Sheed, the great Catholic apologist, wrote those words in his foreword to the original edition of Theology and Sanity, his compelling study of the Catholic worldview. Sheed’s contention that the lack of knowledge of Divine Revelation is at the root of disaster is an equally timeles
