What we read in the newspapers each day and what we consider to be
world trends in the last decade do not leave much room for
enthusiasm or hopefulness. It is easy for Americans-idealists and
realists alike-to fall into despairing attitudes of cynicism,
hopelessness, and laissez-faire. Father Hesburgh is a living
antidote to this failure of spirit, through the work of his own
busy and effective life-one devoted to improving the conditions
under which we all live. In this book he offers an agenda of hope
and maps out the areas in which belief and action might unite and
bring about a better world. Beginning with an apologia for the
active life in the Catholic faith, Father Hesburgh moves on to
matters of world religion, stating a strong case for world
ecumenism. He faces the promises and challenges of bringing human
dignity and civil rights from formula to actuality and shows that a
humane life in the next millennium requires solutions to problems
of population growth, food, overcrowding, and world education. He
then sketches a new world alignment which would place the great
powers in cooperation with each other and would make them recognize
the importance of the underdeveloped half of the planet-the
southern hemisphere. The book ends with a ringing exhortation to
world citizenship. Father Hesburgh has the broadest possible vision
of what it is to be a person in this world, and what is required of
all toe create in the new century a unified life for each person
and a truly united world. Everyone who reads this book will come
away with a deepened and humanized perspective on life today and in
the future.
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