Pope says belief in Jesus leads to communion with God, people

Published: 2006-03-29

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Belief in Jesus Christ should lead people both to a deep communion with God as well as to unity with all men and women, Pope Benedict XVI said. "Communion with God and communion among us are inseparable," the pope said March 29 at his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square. If people are not in communion with the God who created them, "the root or source of unity among us is destroyed," he said. And if people forget that they are all brothers and sisters, "our living in communion with the triune God is not real or true." Pope Benedict was continuing a new series of audience talks about the apostles and the church, following his prepared text only briefly as he explained that it is through the apostles and their successors that the church continues to be a saving communion.

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