FAITH, which the Council of Trent* has declared to be “The beginning of human salvation, the foundation and root of all justification,” is “an infused, supernatural habit inclining the intellect to firmly assent to the truths revealed by God and proposed by the Church, on account of the authority of God, the Revealer.” The material object of Faith is God Himself, as the “prima Veritas in essendo,” and whatever else has been revealed by God. The formal object