The question is: Is the humanity
of our time still waiting for a Savior? One has the feeling that many consider
God as foreign to their own interests. Apparently, they do not need him. They
live as though he did not exist and, worse still, as though he were an
“obstacle” to remove in order to fulfill themselves. Even among believers—we
are sure of it—some let themselves be attracted by enticing dreams and
distracted by misleading doctrines that suggest deceptive shortcuts to
happiness. Yet, despite its contradictions, worries and tragedies, and perhaps
precisely because of them, humanity today seeks a path of renewal, of
salvation, it seeks a Savior and awaits, sometimes unconsciously, the coming of
the Savior who renews the world and our life, the coming of Christ, the one
true Redeemer of man and of the whole of man ■
Pope Benedict XVI
