FAST FOOD AD 2025: Twenty-Fifth Helping

Christ is the concrete categorical imperative. He is the formally universal norm of ethical

action, applicable to every Christian. Christ’s concrete existence—his life, teaching, suffering, death

and ultimate bodily resurrection—surpasses all other systems of ethical norms. In the

final analysis it is to this norm alone that the moral conduct of Christians has to answer…A person cannot love with Christ as his norm for authentic love by doing things that any truthful person would find morally unthinkable for Jesus Himself to do.

– Rev, Dr. Hans von Balthasar, Catholic Theologian and Designated Cardinal by John Paul II