Teachings

I think there is a tendency to get lost in Church teachings as teachings, to forget that everything the Church teaches actually comes to us from the Revelation Who is Jesus the Christ.  We Catholics have a tendency to think of Church teaching, instead of to think of the Person of Christ.  So we talk about abortion, euthanasia, homosexual marriage, and other topics of the day in the light of natural law, biology, philosophy and all the rest.  But the Church relates fundamentally to Christ, and her teachings are meditations on Him.  Christ is not only the fullest revelation possible of an otherwise ineffable God, but also the fullest revelation possible of the human person, of everything that it means to be Man.