Living The Faith On A High Wire

"Christianity did not bring a message of social revolution like that of the ill-fated Spartacus, whose struggle led to so much bloodshed.  Jesus was not Spartacus, he was not engaged in a fight for political liberation like Barabbas or Bar-Kochba.  Jesus, who himself died on the Cross, brought something totally different: an encounter with the Lord of all lords, an encounter with the living God and thus an encounter with a hope stronger than the sufferings of slavery, a hope which therefore transformed life and the world from within."

-- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in Spe Salvi (Saved by Hope).   considered by many as the greatest theologian of our time and among the greatest theologians in Catholic Church history.