What challenges does the Church face?

Question

in the coming century and how should Pope Benedict address these challenges?

Answer 1

The Church has always faced the daunting challenge of making holy, sanctifying, transforming society so that it reflects a world that accords with what God would wish for it, supporting individuals in their efforts to hear the Spirit speaking within them and to live according to what the Spirit is saying to them.

Cultural transformations, growing materialism in which the ethic of the market and material prosperity reign supreme, and the spiritual emptiness of value systems purveyed through the media and entertainment industries, make it increasingly difficult for people and society to hear what the Spirit is saying to them. Despite some significant exceptions, the voice of the Spirit tends to be drowned out in a world of increasing technology, high speed communication and consumer values.

The Church will have to work hard to discover and promote the divine dimension in every aspect of human endeavour. The challenge will be to maintain the spiritual perspective of traditional world-views, to promote the sacred nature of all that is, to help individuals find and love God in all things and them all in God, and to enable individuals, communities and society achieve integrated spiritual, moral, emotional and material well-being, so that they may manifest in themselves the perfection of their heavenly Father.

The Church must be willing and able to assume moral leadership and to cooperate wholeheartedly with other faiths, while always respecting them and never subordinating them. At the same time, it must be prepared to move even beyond faith dimensions and show itself ready to work with every person of good will in promoting peace, justice, harmony, human rights, and respect for all of God’s creation

Answer 2

Angel Eyes- one of the biggest Catholics on Yahoo;
To Overcome their challenges they would have to :
1. go back to the days of Constantine and reverse everything he decided,
- the paganistic rituals of Chritmas and Easter
2. the money propogating rituals
3. the money propogating business that the catholic church is.
4. Benedict would have to go back in time and decide not to become a Nazi soldier in his eary teens.
5. this list is too long and not worth my time.
It's like asking, how can the Anti Christ make this a better world. Ignorant question, with unimportant, self serving responses.
Mystery Babylon will grow- until the end of days. Too bad there isn't one catholic on this planet that knows what the bible tells us, or they wouldn't be catholic ! - Except the satanists, they would become catholic, since it's essentially the same thing.
BTW, that's not a compliment.

Answer 3

Pope Benedict does not speak for the Church ,he rather speak for those members of the voting conclave.So he got nothing to offer in protecting or addressing any issue about Christianity

Answer 4

Well my friend in the next decade I don´t think it will exist because the Catholic church lost the first of 700 sexual abuse case it has to pay 41 million that was two days ago if you multiply the rest of the cases by this amount and you add the hundred of cases that still haven´t been reported the Pope will need to sell the Vatican to pay all the sues.

Answer 5

getting people back in church, more people are leaving the churches and finding other ways to get the answers they are looking for. or they give up on god or Jesus. because all the churches say he gave man free will that people are feed up with that excuse. when they can,t get a straight answer.

Answer 6

The Church is just one generation from extinction, unless we pass the teaching on to our children. Preach man, Preach!

Answer 7

Rising gas prices

Answer 8

Well today, the biggest thing seems to be sincerity for Christ and Christ alone. The bible is the only truth, but It seems that it is not much applied. Also Evangilism has faded into only for those who do it for a Living.

Answer 9

Pervert priests, rigid fundamentalism, and more people capable of understanding science.