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One of the authors was cardinal of the largest diocese in the world, a scholar, and one of the most renowned men of the church. The other has worked in prisons and lived with drug-addicted street kids in Romania and Moldavia. Both are Jesuits. They met in Jerusalem and became friends: two worlds, one faith-and a passionate search for ways in which the message of Jesus of Nazareth can still be effective for tomorrow. In a series of conversations they ask what faith can mean for life, what future young people have in the church, and what must be changed so that Christianity itself has a future. The questions from young people are the catalyst for deep thought.

These conversations that took place in Jerusalem give rise to both doubt and hope. The result is a fascinating, personal book that asks what role Christianity might play for a humane future and addresses the question of religious faith in a wealthy society saturated with goods and without taboos.