The Church believes that greater than this evil, greater than the “sin of the world,” is love. Above all things is the love with which God loved the world: he loved it in his Only-begotten Son, whom he “gave” for the redemption of the world. This love “has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us” (Rom 5:5).

Before the one who is Omniscience and Wisdom, “everything is naked and uncovered”: transparent in its intrinsic truth. In the internal human dimension, the truth of actions belongs to conscience. As the supreme Judge, God—and he alone—is the judge of human consciences. 6. The apostle says, however, that God “will have the

The inculturation of the Gospel in self-satisfied societies and cultures is never easy.

greatest commandment of the Gospel: you will love.

a new experience of Pentecost, from which the Church would enter its third millennium with revitalized evangelical zeal and a new passion for mission.

The relationship with the whole in truth and through truth constitutes an essential characteristic of spirituality, in which the sensory dimension of knowledge is overcome absolutely.

“faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of the truth”

gift, not self-assertion, is the royal road to human flourishing and ultimately to beatitude.

This creator-God and giver of everything is an invisible God. He is substantially different from the world. He cannot be reduced to what is visible, to what is perceptible to the senses.