He said that? Christ’s death was a failure only to the world. To God and his people it was the greatest success ever. I am really starting to dislike this pope. The college of cardinals really screwed up this time.
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Full quote in context:
“To see and evaluate things from God’s perspective calls for constant conversion in the first days and years of our vocation and, need I say, great humility. The cross shows us a different way of measuring success. Ours is to plant the seeds: God sees to the fruits of our labors. And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and produce no fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus… and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross”
“Christ’s death was a failure only to the world.”
That’s why he said it was a HUMAN failure. He never said it was a divine failure of the resurrection to follow. Jesus had to experience complete failure of the flesh (death) in order to show that the divine state continues after the resurrection.