Continent at a Crossroads?

The continent is at a crossroads, and the soul-searching extends to European Catholicism. The Church is divided over issues like Europe’s rearmament, the war in Ukraine, and the future of Israel and Palestine. The Church of the old continent is currently undergoing a process of globalization, with a growing number of students, teachers, priests, and religious from other parts of the world—including prelates coming from America to re-evangelize Europe. In the Vatican, we have the first U.S.-born pope. Europe is also rethinking its role in relation to America, not only politically, economically, and militarily, but also religiously. In particular, the German-speaking part of European Catholicism, associated with theological and ecclesial progressivism, is visibly nervous about the danger of Trumpism coming to the continent.