Quid est veritas? (Part I)

Quid est veritas? What is truth? As recorded by John in his gospel (18:38), Pilate asks Jesus this question.  I relate to Pilate because I too have and constantly ask this question. And perhaps, you too ask this question.

To respond to this question I found this excerpt:

What is truth? Pilate was not alone in dismissing this question as unanswerable and irrelevant for his purposes. Today too, in political argument and in discussion of the foundations of law, it is generally experienced as disturbing. Yet if man lives without truth, life passes him by; ultimately he surrenders the field to whoever is the stronger (Benedict, Jesus of Nazareth, Ch. 7 Section 3).

Do we surrender truth the the "strongest"?  How do we identify what is truth, especially in regards to morality?  Does objective moral truth exist?

More than once in my life, I have been labeled “black and white” and “narrow-minded.”  And I suppose in 21^st century America, this type of “mind” is a public minority.

I recently read an article called, “The Curse of Broadmindedness” by Fulton Sheen.  I was astonished to see how an article published in 1932 can be so relevant today.  Mr. Sheen says there is confusion over “intolerance” and “tolerance.” 

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance. Tolerance is always supposed to be desirable because it is taken to be synonymous with broadmindedness. Intolerance is always supposed to be undesirable, because it is taken to be synonymous with narrow-mindedness. This is not true, for tolerance and intolerance apply to two totally different things. Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons. We must be tolerant to persons because they are human; we must be intolerant about principles because they are divine. We must be tolerant to the erring, because ignorance may have led them astray; but we must be intolerant to the error, because Truth is not our making, but God’s.

Persequendum est (this thing must be continued)