"For the soul's full functioning, we need a Catholic intellect as well as a Catholic will. We have a Catholic will when we love God and obey God, love the Church and obey the Church. We have a Catholic intellect when we live consciously in the presence of the realities that God through His Church has revealed.

A good working test of a Catholic will is that we should do what the Church says. But for a Catholic intellect, we must also see what the Church sees. This means that when we look out upon the universe we see the same universe that the Church sees; and the enormous advantage of this is that the universe the Church sees is the real universe, because She is the Church of God. Seeing what She sees means seeing what is there. 

And just as loving what is good is SANCTITY, or the health of the will, so seeing what is there is SANITY, or the health of the intellect." …

"The problem we shall consider in this book is how our minds are to "master" the Church's landscape, habituate themselves to it, move about easily in it, be at home in it. 

Somehow or other we must become fully conscious citizens of the real world, seeing reality as a whole and living wholly in it."

F. J.  SHEED, Theology & Sanity

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