The Church burns: Crisis and future of Christianity

"The night between 15 and 16 April 2019, the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris burned down". That fire - with which the book opens - devastated a historical center of European Christianity and also symbolically represented the crisis situation in which the Church has been facing for many years. In France as in Italy, in Europe and elsewhere in the world there has been a continuous reduction in religious practice, a decline in vocations, a lower incidence of the Catholic presence in public life. A situation of emptiness that - as Riccardi argues - concerns us all and that this book documents through the figures and events but also with the positions taken by the protagonists of the debate within the Church, from popes to bishops, from theologians to the leaders of the religious movements. From a great historian of the Church and of the religious world, protagonist of Italian public life, the impressive x-ray of the crisis in the Christian world and the analysis of the debate and the different ideas on how to get out of it.