Monsignor Tomáš Halík paid a visit to Rome recently to promote the Italian translation of his new book “Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change.”
“The morning is the pre-modern time,” he explained, “time to build up the institutional and doctrinal structures of the church. Then came the noonday crisis, the time of modernity and secularisation. And now I think we are on the threshold of postmodernity, the post-secular age. This is the afternoon of Christianity, a time for maturity, to go deeper.”
“The fishermen are very tired and told Jesus ‘We have worked all night and we caught nothing. We have empty hands.’ I think many Christians have a similar feeling today, that the churches are half empty, and the seminaries and monasteries too.” Some populist politicians, he said, “are close-minded, and use Christianity as a weapon, as a sign of collective identity." Others, not only polticians, see Catholicism"as a contra-culture against modernity, Protestantism and so on."
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