Catholic Dictionary
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CREDO QUIA ABSURDUM
I believe because it is absurd (or impossible). A phrase attributed to Tertullian (160-220), by which is meant that a Christian believer is not scandalized at the apparent absurdity or impossibility of such revealed mysteries as the Incarnation, that God became man, or the Real Presence, that Christ is truly present under the Eucharist species.
