The Burden of Belief

The Burden of Belief is a book by the Catholic author Ida Friederike Görres (née von Coudenhove) about the challenges of Christian faith in the modern era.

The British Dominican priest, Gerald Vann, OP, wrote the introduction to the English edition.

The young woman admires well-groomed, full-blooded, and intellectually cultured people, and she fears that leading them to Catholicism would diminish their quality of life.

The author argues for the inclusive nature of the Catholic Church and concludes that instead of being a burden, faith is "a release from human limitations, because it is based on revelation.

Following the light of that revelation—which rejects nothing good or natural—the Christian learns that 'the burden of God is the superabundance of Grace.

Görres’s answer through the man in the book is that if the call to the Church really comes from Jesus Christ, the Son of God, then there is no choice.