Crisi e futuro del cristianesimo

The situation for the Church today is very difficult. Is this one of the many crises Christianity has experienced, or is it a definitive decline? It's a question that troubles even those who observe Christianity from the outside. But crisis doesn't necessarily mean the end. It can be an opportunity to open to the future, knowing that the great risk is to settle for survival, yearning for a better past. The solution is to live within the crisis. The Church today is called to a state of struggle, this time not against external enemies but against indifference and discredit. "On the night between April 15 and 16, 2019, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris caught fire." That fire—with which the book opens—devasted a historic center of European Christianity and also symbolically represented the crisis the Church has been experiencing for many years. In France, Italy, Europe, and elsewhere in the world, there has been a continued decline in religious practice, a decline in vocations, and a diminishing impact of the Catholic presence in public life. A void that—as Riccardi argues—affects us all, and which this book documents through figures and events, but also through the positions taken by key figures in the internal debate within the Church, from popes to bishops, from theologians to the leaders of the main religious movements. From a great historian of the Church and the religious world, a key figure in Italian public life, comes a striking survey of the crisis in the Christian world and an analysis of the debate and the various ideas on how to overcome it.