Summary
God's full entry into human embodiment - into human community, temporality, and mortality, all conditions suggested by the biblical term "flesh" - culminates in his death and entry into new life. Through twenty centuries the martyrs of every age and every culture - from Paul and Perpetua to Edith Stein and Oscar Romero - summon humanity from resentment of the body's betrayals, and fear of death, to the paschal freedom of the children of God.
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The Paschal Cure
In an exchange with the U.S. bishops during his apostolic visit to the United States last April, Pope Benedict offered the following challenge: "It is becoming more and more difficult in our Western societies to speak in a meaningful way of salvation. Yet salvation - deliverance from the reality of evil, and the gift of new life and freedom in Christ - is at the ...
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