By Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing - The Catholic faith doesn’t come by surveys, opinion polls, referenda, or even synods. It comes from God. Those other instruments might at times be helpful for understanding how best to express and hand on the faith. But the faith itself is of divine origin. Failure to adhere to the principle of dogma inevitably leads members of the Church to chase after public opinion, desperately trying to shape the faith into what others think it should be.