The cross, yes, the cross is the sign of Jesus’ infamous death — “Jesus who is counted among the criminals”, as the evangelists like noticing —, it is the tale of his sympathy with the victims, of his stooping to the condition of a humiliated slave, “to the death and the death on the cross”, as Paul witnesses. Nevertheless, the cross must not prevail over the Crucified! As a matter of fact, the cross doesn’t make great the one who is hung on it, but Jesus is he who redeems the cross and gives a meaning to it, so that everyone who knows this situation of suffering and shame, of curse and annihilation, could find Jesus next to him. Each cross is an enigma turned into a mystery by Jesus: in an unjust world, the just can only be refused, opposed, condemned. This is a necessitas humana (human need) and Jesus — exactly because he wanted to “remain just”, in solidarity with the victims, the lambs — had to know the clash between him and the injustice of this world. But those who are able to read Jesus’ passion and death in this way have to understand it as a glorious event for Him: the glory of he who has spent his life for the mankind, the glory of he who has loved to the end, the glory of he who dies condemned for having tried to tell that God is mercy, is love. If there is a place where Jesus turned God into “Gospel”, where he “evangelized” Him, that place is exactly the cross, good news for all the sinners!