In the face of utopias of unlimited perfection or narratives of human substitution, the Church proposes to preserve the constitutive tensions of experience-body and spirit, male and female, individual and community, finitude and infinity-and its orientation to Christ.

While old cathedral halls are turned into miniature golf courses, and young people sing that life is an open wound, time is hungry for hope, and “signs of new religious awareness among young people” are emerging, searching for roots. This is how Bishop Erik Varden expressed himself in the Exercises of the Pope and the Roman Curia.