Pope Benedict XVI has insisted again and again, faith and reason are not opposed. Faith “broadens reason.” St. Augustine point of departure was not the contrast between the two cities; it was the interaction between grace and rationalism. And for Augustine and the Catholic tradition, grace is not a concept or an abstraction describing a divine power granted to man by Christ, but Christ himself, his Incarnate Person, the man who died on the cross and rose again. Our task is not to struggle to be both rational and full of faith, but to share Christ’s life through the Church now and experience the harmony between faith and reason broadened by God’s love for us in Christ and our love for Him.