” “"Christianity is not a new philosophy, a new morality: we are Christians insofar as we meet Christ". It was said by the Pope during today’s audience, the first one since his return from Castelgandolfo, entirely focussed on the conversion of Saint Paul on the way to Damascus. "Only in the personal relation with Christ, in the encounter with the Resurrected, do we become truly Christians", said Benedict XVI, off the cuff, in the last part of the catechesis: "thus our reason opens up" and discovers "all of Christ’s wisdom, all the truth". "There’s only one announcement of the Resurrected, because Christ is one", highlighted the Pontiff who mostly spoke off the cuff. For Saint Paul, Christ Resurrected revealed Himself as "the light of the truth: this expanded his heart, opened it up to everyone". So, through his conversion, Saint Paul "did not lose, but understood wisdom, truth, in an entirely new way, his reason opened up for the wisdom of the heathen. In this way, according to the Pope, the Apostle of Tarsus was "capable of a wide dialogue with everyone, to be everything with everyone, and so he could be the apostle of the heathen".” “
