Knowing Jesus is the best gift that any person can receive.

That we've encountered him as the best thing that's happened in our lives,

and making him known by our word and deeds is our greatest joy.

If you're hungry for that encounter,

if you're dying to know the love of God, which alone

makes sense out of life, if you're longing to know that you matter so much and that his power

can fill you with all that you need so that you can be the man or the woman that you want to be,

then join me and dig into the scriptures and the teachings

of the church so that we can find the life that Jesus has made us for.

Ave Maria Radio presents Christ is the answer with Father John Ricardo.

He's a priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit and is currently the executive director of a

nonprofit organization called Acts 29, which exists to work with pastors and their teams to

transform their parish culture and reclaim the church's missionary identity. He was ordained in

1996. Several years ago, Father Ricardo talked with a group of young adults about our American

and Western culture. It's a culture not based in truth. Most who live in the culture don't believe in any truth, and they believe that what is

truth for me is not truth for them.

It's all relative.

Father John Ricardo's title for this program is simply relativism.

Let's back up to last week and the challenge that Pope Benedict made, which is really the challenge of this series, I think.

This is, again, a quote from a letter that he wrote.

It's found in a book called Without Roots.

He describes again why the Christian faith is struggling to convey its great message to people in Europe.

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