The Archives

Jesus Christ, True God and True Man

The Wisdom, the Word, the Son of God took on human body, spirit and mind, that is, the whole Adam, or, to speak plainly, all our ancient humanity without sin.

- St. Damasus, Letter to Paulinus of Antioch, 375

Immolated on the altar of the cross through He was innocent, (Christ) did not merely shed a drop of his blood - although this would have sufficed for the redemption of the whole human race...but a copious flood.

- Clement VI, Unigenitus Dei Filius, 1313

The Redeemer of man, Jesus Christ, is the center of the universe and of history.

- John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis, March 4, 1979

Invisible in His nature, He became visible in ours; surpassing comprehension, He had wished to be comprehended; remaining prior to time, he began to exist in time.

- St. Leo I the Great, Letter to Flavian, June 13, 449

Men and states alike necessarily have their being from God through Jesus Christ, through whom every best and choicest gift has ever proceeded and proceeds.

- Leo XIII, Mirae Caritatis, May 28, 1902

In Jesus Christ the visible world which God created for man - the world that, when sin entered, was subjected to futility - recovers again its original link with the divine source of Wisdom and Love.

- John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis, March 4 1979