Christ is the only complete source and goal of humanity. The perennial task of the Church is to proclaim Christ, to give us a right vision of life. To set before us the only true model. To help us become complete human beings, men and women of integrity. I've already said there is much in modern life that is unhuman .
Many people sum it up by speaking of life as a rat race.
It isn't a bad description. One thing is for sure, the pace of the rat race, now that economic liberalism and market forces have taken over, has quickened. A very real tragedy of our times is that many of our educational, social and political institutions appear to be doing little more than turning out a more sophisticated breed of rat. Particularly tragic is that the life-giving liberating integrating Gospel of Christ is being abused or ignored in the search for more efficient rats. The emphasis is on conformity . . . fitting in. . .