all made the one and perfect whole.

There was the Catholic Faith, more certain to him than the existence of himself: it was true and alive.

He might be damned, but God reigned.

He might go mad, but Jesus Christ was Incarnate Deity, proving Himself so by death and Resurrection, and John his Vicar.

These things were as the bones of the Universe--facts beyond doubting--if they were not true, nothing anywhere was anything but a dream.
Difficulties ?--Why, there were ten thousand.