ABSTRACT
To judge the faiths of science and the Church is to stand at a crossroad. Of the two ways of thinking about man — of science and the Church — one reaches deeper and anticipates the other. The Church answers the cardinal questions about man in terms of his relationship to God. It describes God's gift of freedom to man; it catalogues man's true want of God; and it reveals the good of God's natural law for man. The first truth of anthropology is God. This is the truth upon which the study of man must begin. And this is the truth to which science must be held responsible. The greater depth of the Church and her priority over science are confirmed by how she and science have always gotten along. Western intellectual history confirms that science was prepared for and made possible by the Church.
