“Pietà” (detail) by Michelangelo located in St. Peter’s Basilica


“If one were to ask of the New Testament: What is Man? It would reply with the words of the apostle John: That creature whom God ‘so loved . . . that he gave his only-begotten Son . . .’ (3:16). The answer immediately evokes a second: Man is that creature who dared to slaughter the Son God sent him…” (Fr. Romano Guardini; The Lord)


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