The following is from paragraph 7 of Leo XIV, In Unitate Fidei (November 23, 2025):
Divinization in no way implies the self-deification of man. On the
contrary, divinization protects us from the primordial temptation to want to be
like God (cf. Gen 3:5). What Christ is by nature, we become by grace. Through
the work of redemption, God not only restored our human dignity as his image,
but the One who created us in a wondrous way, has now made us partakers in his
divine nature in an even more wondrous way (cf. 2 Pet 1:4).
Divinization, then, is true humanization (becoming fully human). This
is why human existence points beyond itself, seeks beyond itself, desires
beyond itself, and is restless until it rests in God. [6] “ Deus enim solus
satiat, God alone satisfies man!” [7] Only God, in his infinity, can satisfy
the infinite desire of the human heart, and for this reason the Son of God
chose to become our brother and redeemer.
Notes for
the Above:
[6] Cf. Saint Augustine, Confessions, I, 1: CCSL 27, Turnhout 1981, 1.
[7] Saint Thomas Aquinas, In Symbolum Apostolorum, art. 12: ed.
Spiazzi, Thomae Aquinatis, Opuscula theologica, II, Taurini - Romae 1954, 217.