Europe: Today and Tomorrow
Pope Benedict XVI has long been an acute and compassionate analyst of the ills that beset Europe, a continent once the undisputed center of world civilization but now adrift and sinking in a post-modern fog. The Holy Father is more than a diagnostician, though. His prescription--a Europe that has rediscovered the human dignity implicit in its Christian roots while absorbing the best achievements of the Enlightenment--is applicable to the entire Western world as we face the challenge of a civilizational rival with a very different point of view of the human condition and human future. This small book gets the big questions of the 21st century exactly right. --George Weigel