Like I said, I am a traditional Catholic, so absolutely, if I didn't believe that I would be a pagan vagabond pursuing only my flesh instead of contemplating the truths of eternity and the realities and mysteries of the Trinity. Truth is inseparable from God, because He is truth itself, all that is in creation is a participation in his act of being, the only way we could even exist is if God allowed us to participate in His eternal being.
If you read back to what I said I mentioned something called the transcendentals, there are four in scholastic philosophy which are basically God in his essence to a certain degree, and those four are these: Good, Being, One, True. All those cannot exist without the other, and nothing in reality could exist without the transcendentals, you can look at ANYTHING in reality and apply those four principles and they will have them, that is, except evil, which lacks a due good, hence making it evil, but like I said before, evil has no substance per se, no tangible, sensible being, it is only a deprivation of something that should be there but God has allowed not to be, which is an incredible mystery unto itself.
My idea of truth is not my own, so I would never claim it to be from myself. Truth is that which is Good, that has oneness, that is, that is beautiful. I would never call murder any of those things, and if anyone called murder beautiful would be a liar. Truth is also revealed by God through revelation, but also through nature, namely what I am somewhat explaining to you here, what we call Natural Philosophy, or the Philosophy of Nature, that is, whatever can be contemplated without the aid of revelation from God. Natural Philosophy is what was achieved by certain philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato to name a couple. Although they had a few things wrong, thankfully Our Lord revealed what those errors were through the Church and saints who contemplated these truths and questions on nature and reality, but Aristotle and Plato were right about an enormous amount of things in reality. But they are scoffed at these days in academia because they are not moral relativists and do not support the liberal agenda. In their time to say that one person decided what was true or what was good and evil was complete and utter lunacy, as it still is to this day, but unfortunately it is just widely accepted in academia these days, that is the only reason, you can thank the "enlightenment" and Protestant reformation for a lot of the moral relativism we have today. It was their erroneous philosophy that seeped into the minds of professors and academics. Such public denial of the truths of sin and evil never existed on a scale in previous centuries as they do today, and if people were debaucherous in earlier centuries before the reformation and "enlightenment" it was because they just didn't care, not because they thought they were right about everything, they just didn't care because you find no sort of moral relativism as we have today in any writings from anyone before the mid 1500's.
It would take awhile to explain more in depth the nature of truth because I would have to use a lot of philosophical terms you may or may not be familiar with because academically it is a complex subject if you went into it in detail, but simply, in its very nature, God is truth and God is good, one and is. That is why He called Himself: I am Who am. Perfect. True. Beautiful.
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