has created us to live with God and one another in a communion of justice and love. Third, humanity has not been left by itself to deal with the divisive results of our deadly failures to love God and neighbor—a fissure of antagonism and suffering that taints all human history and scars individual lives; in Christ, God entered human history and through his death on the cross unalterably reconciled human beings to God and one another. Fourth, notwithstanding all appearances, rapacious time will not