"In John Paul II, I found a man of God, in the deep and powerful sense of the word, and at the same time a real man, in all his great and genuine humanity": this was said in Rome this morning at the headquarters of Enciclopedia Treccani by card. Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s vicar in Rome, on the occasion of a commemoration of the Pope who died one year ago, that he pronounced with Giulio Andreotti and the president of Enciclopedia Italiana, Casavola. "One could feel his creativity, his courage, his sensitivity and his freedom… he was a man of mercy. He strongly believed that the Church cannot be stopped by anyone and he acted accordingly", added the cardinal, as he also outlined an analysis of his philosophical and theological thought. "The unifying principle of his thought he said was to highlight that, through His incarnation, Christ united to every man and therefore man himself is the first, fundamental way of the Church". All his magisterium concluded Ruini "shows therefore that the Church has an anthropocentric mission, i.e. a mission centred on man, to be theocentrically accomplished by referring it all the time to God ".
