By James V. Schall, S.J., The Catholic Thing - Truth does not just mean that something is out there, something that we did not make or put there… Truth means that what is out there is now also within us. We “become” what it is in a knowing way. We possess it because we know it and affirm what is there as true… “In the beginning was the Word.” All truth as truth is connected with the “I am the truth.” All freedom as freedom is connected with the truth that makes us free.