Evangelization/Secularization

The synodal Church calls us to a deep change as an institution, but especially as persons. Change, personal conversion, is not going to affect only our way of being Church, but rather it will affect more directly and personally our way of living Christianity, or, if we want to be more precise, our way of being Christians. Synodality is an ecclesial reality, but it has a human sense that we often tend to pass over. Cristina Inoges talks to us about that. She is a lay theologian, who has experienced from the inside, with her voice and a right to vote, this Synod Assembly XVI, 2021-2024.

In 2017, shortly after the #MeToo Movement began denouncing violence against women in the secular world, the feminist movement became a prophetic voice also within the Church. Several ecclesiastical initiatives have been responding to the wound and the suffering produced by structural discrimination against women. By March 2020 there were already public demonstrations in the streets in support of the dignity and equality of women in the Church. Without pastoral intelligence, it is impossible to grasp the regenerative potential of women in the Church.

In Europe we are witnessing a genuine collapse of the Christian faith. In relatively few decades, a European society with deep Christian cultural roots has become a society in which Christianity is culturally irrelevant. In this booklet the author analyzes this crisis and then explores the conditions that would make a new Christian initiation possible. Such a re-initiation will have to take place from below, from the poor, from the passion of the people, from the great masses of humankind.