In his last interview, the late Italian Cardinal and former Archbishop of Milan, Carlo Maria Martini, said the need for deep reform in the Catholic Church was urgent and long overdue because ‘the Church is 200 years behind the times’.
Vatican II was one attempt to meet the challenge of relevance to our times. But its best efforts have been on ice since the late 1970s.
Now a new opportunity arrives in the pontificate of Jorge Mario Bergoglio. And the movement he has initiated is evangelical in source and comprehensive in reach. But, as many observers have pointed out, it will not be lasting if it does not lead to sustainable structural change—to reform that accompanies renewal.
Here, five qualified commentators focus on what lies ahead for the Church to be reformed if it is to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.
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