” “”God is everyone’s”: it was repeated by Benedict XVI to the faithful, gathered this morning in Saint Peter’s Square for the general Wednesday audience. The Holy Father recalled the figure of the Apostle Paul, the "thirteenth apostle", a Jew from the diaspora, calling him a "top-ranking star in the history of the Church and not only that of the origins”. Taking his cue from the Apostle’s testimony, the Pope insisted that "what matters today is to place the person of Jesus at the centre, so that our identity will be marked by the encounter with Christ". About Paul’s conversion, he added that that meeting with Christ "touched him and changed all his life" to such an extent that he "speaks not only of a vision, but above all of an enlightenment and a calling”. ” “
