The Monk under the Mitre

In an interview before Cologne, he said he wanted young people to know 'how beautiful it is to be a Christian.' People think 'Christianity is composed of laws and bans which one has to keep and is therefore toilsome and burdensome', whereas being Christian 'is like having wings.' Or consider his words at the funeral of Luigi Guissani, the founder of Communion and Liberation. Guissani understood, he said, that Christianity 'was not an intellectual system' but 'an encounter, a love story.'