Christ’s cross, which Christ himself told us to carry (cfr. Mt 16,24), converts that tree of death that led to the downfall of our pristine humanity in Adam and Eve into a tree of eternal life ...

It stands like that tree of paradise that God made into the tree of life, the cross of Jesus. But when the kindness and generous love of God our Savior appeared, not because of any righteous deeds ...

From Palaeolithic cave paintings to cruciform churches and Sydney’s Kings Cross, this deceptively primitive intersection of two lines has enduring symbolic power.