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A Turning Point for Europe?: The Church in the Modern World: Assessment and Forecast is unavailable, but you can change that!

Cardinal Ratzinger addresses the challenges and responsibilities that both the Church and society in Europe face after the collapse of Marxism. Both liberalism and Marxism have denied religion the right to have any influence on public affairs and the common future of humanity. Since there is also a great spiritual emptiness growing in the West with the increased secularization, consumerism and...

essential inner form of faith? Or, in other words: What must constitute a faith that responds to the signs of the times and thus shows man the path to redemption in this hour? I should like to propose three trains of thought. Faith is not the resignation of reason in view of the limits of our knowledge; it is not a retreat into the irrational in view of the dangers of a merely instrumental reason. Faith is not the expression of weariness and flight but is courage to exist and
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