Veritas

Wandering downtown yesterday, I noticed a large advertising banner down the side of one of the cathedrals. It advertised a course about the history of Catholicism and Christianity, which it entitled "Veritas". And I think to myself, "Truth? It's a strange way to say the word. As if they are afraid of how people will react if it were named in spoken language".

But the truth, as it was, and as I slowly came to realize, is that
their "veritas" is more than that. Like the language in which it is
written, it is old and almost forgotten, often twisted to mean more or
less than it really does. The truth: not the whole truth, but the real
truth.