"What is Truth?" - Pontius Pilate - St John 18:38

"What is Truth?" is the age old question. Some people spend a lifetime searching for something truthful to believe in. Some people try to analyze everything, every word, find every nuance, every angle of a word or a phrase. These people may say they have found truth, but rather than live it, they want to convert others to it or perhaps explain it over and over and over again, thinking that verbosity equals truth (or perhaps their continuous discussion is in an attempt to convince themselves of something their inner conscience [that 'gut feeling'] indicates is not quite Truth). But verbosity is just talk. Show me actions which provoke truth.

The Epistle of St. James is a good place to start looking for actions which will exhibit truth. Many former believers in an ordered universe and an ordered Church fail to take the words of St. James to heart. Rather than read, mark and inwardly learn this Epistle (aka form one's conscience based on Scripture, Tradition, Reason and Logic), they prefer to quote non-canonical works or something they read somewhere written by someone with an agenda against Scripture, Tradition, Reason and/or Logic.

God is All-Good in that He gives us many ways to form our conscience so as to draw us to Him and His Church. Western Civilization since the renaissance has attempted to separate the Church, Scripture and Tradition from Reason and Logic. Perhaps they think that separation will allow them to "prove" their agenda. But in the final analysis, Reason and Logic will point to the Church, Scripture and Tradition every time.

The world has been given an example in the person of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger who is now Pope Benedict XVI {La pace è su lui.}. His careful study and inspired writings are both Reasonable and Logical. Even his term "reasonable" is now being used by translators who interpret Shiite and Sunni discourses. Pope Benedict XVI {La pace è su lui.} has forced the public to examine dogma and doctrine using Logic and Reason.

And what is the final reward? More people in the 'West' are thinking more intimately about what they believe. And this translates into action based on belief. Although some, it appears, are still caught in a whirlpool of verbiage with little action. Muhammadan leaders are beginning to use the terms Reasonable and Logical in a more universal and open understanding of the term, not as strictly defined to their sect of Muhammadanisn. It's not much, but it is a change for the better for all concerned.

So, "What is Truth?" It's all found here.