Is There a Basic Unity in Truth?

Controversies, as is known, exist in many areas of dispute.   Many times a consensus, among reasonable and unbiased people, can be achieved on particular agreements on certain subjects or, perhaps, regarding historical personalities.   Regarding the moral and righteous pursuit of the truth, fair-minded thinkers and others seek out the facts, evidence, etc. to either support or deny certain matters.

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And yet, it is often the case that different people of, e.g., different religions may still look at the same evidence and come to completely opposite conclusions.   Many Catholics and people of the Jewish faith, thus, can disagree about many things.  And, of course, they can agree upon other matters.  But, the highly important philosophical question might be legitimately raised as to if there is really a basic unity in truth among all decent people, regardless of religious affiliations.

One wonders, however, if it is now an established article of the Roman Catholic Faith to definitively affirm the Holocaust and, moreover, to clearly specify exactly 6 million deaths?   No decent or rational person, of course, ought to ever deny that millions of Jewish people died as a result of deliberate extermination by the forces of Nazi Germany; the death toll could, perhaps, have been even greater than the conventional figure usually chosen; it is hard to absolutely know the true figure; and, millions of other people were, also, as viciously murdered, in terrible ways, that ought to, thus, rightly horrify all civilized human beings forever.   That is not, fortunately, the dispute here.