In fact, my original list of questions numbered only twenty. John Paul II had answered them with surprising diligence, without avoiding one of them. The text, which will be published in Italy and simultaneously in all the major languages of the world, was examined and approved by the author himself. It will now be the job of theologians and analysts of the papal teaching to face the problem of classifying a text that has no precedent and therefore poses new possibilities for the Church. In such a climate all abstractions vanish.
Dogma becomes flesh, blood, life.
The theologian becomes witness and shepherd.