“A modern edifice built without God is destined to collapse. This world, which has sought to emancipate itself from the Creator, cannot survive unless it returns to Him.” We are publishing an extract from 2050, the latest work by Cardinal Robert Sarah, published by San Paolo (228 pp., 18 euros), available in bookshops
from today.

In this ritual – so technical and so deeply rooted in time and programming, as if it were the blueprint for a colossal enterprise – there lies, paradoxically, an attempt, difficult for us to grasp, to immortalise human activity, or, rather, to seek the eternal in human activity