He takes care of our health in the fullest sense. Jesus demonstrates this in the Gospel: He has healed the sick of all kinds, but He has also freed the possessed, forgiven sins, raised the dead. Jesus revealed that God loves life and wants to free it from all denial, even the radical denial that is spiritual evil, sin, the poisonous root that pollutes everything. For this reason, Jesus himself can be called the "Health" of man: Salus nostra Dominus Jesus. Jesus saves man by placing him once again in the salutary relationship with the Father in the grace of the Holy Spirit; he immerses him in this pure and life-giving current that loosens man from his physical, psychic and spiritual "paralysis"; he heals him from hardness of heart, from egocentric closure, and makes him taste the possibility of truly finding himself by losing himself for love of God and neighbour. Unde origo, inde salus. This motto recalls many references; I will just recall one, the famous expression of St Irenaeus: "Gloria Dei vivens homo, vita autem hominis visio Dei [est]" (Adv. haer. IV, 20, 7). Which could be paraphrased thus: the glory of God is the full health of man, and this consists in being in deep relationship with God. We can also say it in terms dear to the newly born John Paul II: man is the way of the Church, and the Redeemer of man is Christ.
[Pope Benedict, meeting with the world of culture, art and economics 8 May 2011]