Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik recalls the faith, humanity, and priestly witness of Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyên Văn Thuân, whose years of imprisonment became a school of the Gospel and a powerful testimony of hope.
Élisabeth Nguyễn Thị Thu Hồng, sister of Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyên Văn Thuân, recalls how his 1,001 prison meditations were written, smuggled out, and eventually published as The Road of Hope, becoming a source of faith for Christians around the world.
Study Group 3 of the Synod on Synodality reflects on the Church’s mission in digital culture, highlighting opportunities for encounter, inclusion, and evangelization while also addressing risks such as polarization, isolation, and manipulation.
Erik Hendriks describes how Belgium’s Logia network is using TikTok to reach young people with the Gospel. Their experience reveals a surprising openness to faith while highlighting the need to connect digital evangelization with welcoming, authentic Christian communities.
Fr. Davide Imeneo explains how Artificial Intelligence can support journalism, education, and pastoral ministry without replacing human judgment and relationships. Through AcutisAI, he promotes a responsible, ethical, and Gospel-centered approach to digital technology.
Digital culture is not simply a collection of technological tools but a genuine human and missionary environment. Mgr. Lucio Adrián Ruiz explains how the Church can accompany people online, form digital missionaries and make the Internet a place of encounter, listening and hope.
Paolo Ruffini reflects on Christian communication in the age of artificial intelligence, calling us to preserve human relationships, freedom and truth while actively shaping technological change so that communication remains rooted in communion, authentic encounter and witness to the Gospel.
Hubertus Blaumeiser introduces an Ekklesía issue exploring artificial intelligence from an anthropological, educational and pastoral perspective, alongside a special feature on Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận, whose witness of hope remains strikingly relevant fifty years after The Road of Hope.
Today’s Time and Spaces explores how the Church is responding to the social, religious and spiritual challenges identified by the Synod, fostering communities of welcome, belonging and mission in an increasingly secular, mobile and digitally connected world.
Through the life of missionary bishop Dom Mario Pasqualotto, Piero Facci recounts a vocation rooted in putting God first, lived through communion, missionary service and a preferential love for those on society’s margins, especially vulnerable young people.
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In an age of growing secularization, Manuel María Bru Alonso proposes that the future of evangelization lies not in larger institutions but in creative, welcoming communities that embody communion, synodality and missionary witness through relationships, prayer and service.
The Church Among the People reflects on the Church’s vocation to be present in the midst of humanity, sharing its joys, struggles and hopes. Through theological insights and pastoral experiences from diverse contexts, the contributors explore mission, synodality, community and service, presenting a Church that listens, accompanies and witnesses to the Gospel by walking alongside the people it serves.
Sharing the Gospel Story Today explores how the Gospel can be proclaimed authentically in today’s world through witness, dialogue and lived experience. Bringing together biblical, theological and pastoral reflections, the contributors show that evangelisation is rooted in encounter, communion and everyday life, inviting Christians to communicate the joy of the Gospel with creativity, hope and love.
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