“The originality of Christ is not only love of neighbour, but peculiarly love of one’s enemy. The friend-enemy dialectic in Christian terms cannot be resolved by annihilating the enemy, but by re-covering the enemy as a friend. In the worldly order, this is not so; the enemy is liquidated. Either the State eliminates the enemy or it is eliminated by the enemy. In the church things are radically different, and when the church has failed to behave as if they are -as in certain moments of the Inquisition and even more so in the religious wars – history has rightly reproached her”

Methol Ferré