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The first thing the Cross does is cross out the world's word by a Wholly-Other Word, a Word that the world does not want to hear at any price. For the...more

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Once a person learns to read the signs of love and thus to believe it, love leads him into the open field wherein he himself can love. If the prodigal...more

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What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

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Nevertheless, in a passage that is very often commented upon because it summarizes the entire salvific economy of faith, the Apostle calls Christ the ...more

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For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute of being judge and consuming fire. Nothing is more ...more

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Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure fo...more

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The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human bei...more

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Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.

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To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thank...more

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In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and...more

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God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

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Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guil...more

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It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it u...more

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What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to...more

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It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.