Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things.

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

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.