Archbishop Luigi Negri (+2021):
Hope is the one great realism because it imbues the contents of human experience with the certainty of God’s victory. The realism of hope makes us take part deeply in the events of our time, it makes us judge them clearly (culture) and makes us love other people over and above every difference and every distinction (charity). This thing that is all mine, which carries within it the greatness of freedom, the capacity for love, the shame of sin, the blindness; this thing that is all mine that God’s victory makes his own, so that my life becomes a sign.
