Nor did demons crucify him; it is you who have crucified him and crucify him still, when you delight in your vices and sins. 392

Catechism number 622

The redemption won by Christ consists in this, that he came "to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mt 20:28), that is, he "loved [his own] to the end" (Jn 13:1), so that they might be "ransomed from the futile ways inherited from [their] fathers" (I Pt 1:18).

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