Challenges and Opportunities in Modern Catholicism

The chapter delves into Catholic morality as a path to wisdom and love, emphasizing the challenges of finding happiness in a materialistic world. It explores the concept of being spiritual but not religious, contrasts individual autonomy with historical figures like Luther, and discusses the impact of capitalist society on individualism. The chapter also explores the importance of spiritual communion, Catholicism's response to modern nihilism, and the intellectual engagement within Catholicism in the 20th century.