It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
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Her Marys Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.
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Only the Christian religion which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things.
- Hans Urs Von Balthasar