Originally published at The Catholic Thing
Christianity in Europe, even in Catholic Italy, has been declining for generations. It’s not the fall of the Roman Empire all over again, but there is a strange rhyming quality, a similar sense of death and rebirth. But there is suggestive cultural evidence that secular liberalism has lost faith in itself, that many people miss not just religion’s moral vision but also its metaphysical horizons, and that the arguments for religious belief might be getting a new hearing.
