Each tree, Jesus says, is known by its own fruit” (Luke 6:44). This is true of all trees, except for the one born from him, Christianity (in fact he speaks here of men); this unique tree is not known by its fruit, but by its roots. In Christianity plenitude is not at the end, as in the Hegelian dialectic of becoming (“only the entire is true”), but it is at the beginning; no fruit, not even the greatest saints, add something to the perfection of the model. In this sense, those are right who say “Christianity is not perfectible.
— Padre Raniero Cantalamessa — www.cantalamessa.org — Readability
