Love and Loyalty

“Even as a Christian, one remains a Frenchman or a German, an American or an Indian.…But the full development of this double cultural identity first appears with Christian culture, so that man now lives within two cultural entities: in his historical culture and in the new one of faith, which meet and mingle in him. This existing together will never be a complete synthesis; it brings with it a need for continuing processes of reconciliation and purification.” – Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)