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“Mary,” if you remember, “kept all these words, pondering them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19). Catholic theology is exactly that: the constant meditation on an unchanging revelation, a deepening appreciation of it and a deepening understanding of it. We cannot add to divine revelation, any more than we can add to any other living thing. You cannot add to a tree or to a body.”
― Monsignor A N Gibley, We Believe: A Simple Commentary on the Catechism of Christian Doctrine

“Here I am going to say something I shall probably repeat many times: namely, that this is a matter in which Catholic theology differs completely from every other intellectual discipline. In every other intellectual and academic discipline, what are we doing but trying to push back the boundaries of knowledge? Whether it be in science or history, we are constantly trying to seek further knowledge. Now, with Christian theology the position is completely different. The actual truth communicated to us is not one that we can discover nor one, therefore, that we can enlarge. A revelation has been given to us, “the faith once”
― Monsignor A N Gibley, We Believe: A Simple Commentary on the Catechism of Christian Doctrine