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The crucifix is the mirror through which everyone, believers and nonbelievers, can find a meaning that enriches life. And therefore, "nowhere man can better realize what he is worth than by looking at himself in the mirror of the cross." This was stressed today by Benedict XVI, who focused the catechesis for the general audience on the figure of St. Anthony of Padua, a man who always put "Christ at the center of life and of thought, action and preaching." Initiator of Franciscan theology, the saint, one of the most popular throughout the Church, spoke "of prayer as a relationship of love which impels a man to talk sweetly with the Lord." "Only a soul that prays - insisted the Pope - can make progress ...

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