Contents:

• Front Matter
• How This Book Came To Be
• "The Pope": A Scandal and a Mystery
• Praying: How and Why
• How Does The Pope Pray?
• Does God Really Exist?
• "Proof": Is It Still Valid?
• If God Exists, Why Is He Hiding?
• Is Jesus the Son of God?
• What Has Become of the "History of Salvation"?
• The Centrality of Salvation
• Why Is There So Much Evil In The World?
• Why Does God Tolerate Suffering?
• What Does "To Save" Mean?
• Why So Many Religions?
• Buddha?
• Muhammad?
• Judaism?
• A Minority by the Year 2000
• What Is The "New Evang elization"
• Is There Really Hope In The Young?
• Was God at Work in the Fall of Communism?
• Is Only Rome Right?
• In Search of Lost Unity
• Why Divided?
• The Church and the Council
• A "Dialogue of Salvation"
• A Qualitative Renewal
• The Reaction of the "World"
• Does "Eternal Life" Exist?
• What is the Use of Believing?
• Human Rights
• The Defense of Every Life
• The Mother of God
• Women
• "Be Not Afraid"
• Crossing the Threshold of Hope