Vatican II ABOUT FACE! - Chiesa viva

ing the Apostles out to the people, He used the imperative:
«docete omnes gentes», [teach all men] to announce to
them the “Good News,” His Gospel; to convert them and,
thus, save their souls.
Christ, in fact, was sent by the Father for us, “to expiate
our sins” (1 John 4,10), and not to cure man in the human
sense (poverty, sickness, death), but to raise him up to
Divine life, through the gift of Grace. Christianity is, therefore,
a new generation (Gv. 3,7), a new life that allows us
“to share the divine nature.” (2 Peter 1,4)
Christianity is not a liberal theology that wishes to give us
a Christ who is friend of the poor and redeemer of the exploited,
who preaches an economic-social humanitarianism
and teaches us to do good to others, even our enemies. This religion
would only be a human one, on a human scale, or philanthropy.
The Christian religion, instead, is infinitely higher, because
it elevates man to divine heights, to the love of God. It, thus,
realizes a mysterious “graft”, suggested by Christ “I am the
vine, you are the branches.” (John 15,5), “until we are one
with the Father.” (John 17,11,21)
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