” “"There’s no opposition between Christ and the Church" and the slogan that "was so popular a few years ago", "Yes to Jesus, no to the Church" is "completely incompatible with Christ’s intention". This strong "no" to an "individualistic interpretation" of Christianity, which is a personal and "community" religion as Christ’s "mission" "aims to gather God’s eschatological people into unity", was uttered today by Benedict XVI, who devoted the traditional general audience to the "mystery of the relation between Christ and the Church, from the perspective of the experience of the apostles, in the light of the task entrusted to them". This will be, announced the Pope at the beginning of the audience, the subject of the next Wednesday meetings after the closing of the cycle of catecheses about the Psalms and the Canticles of the Lauds and Vespers. "My beloved Predecessor, John Paul II recalled the Holy Father proposed to the Church, at the beginning of the third millennium, to contemplate the face of Christ. Moving in the same direction, in the catecheses that I am beginning today, I would like to show how it is just the light of that Face that is reflected in the face of the Church, despite the limits and the shadows of our fragile and sinning humanity". (to be continued)” “
