Cardinal Sarah returns with this must-read rumination on his hopes, fears, and realistic predictions for the Catholic Church in the coming decades, with a special view of his home continent of Africa and the pontificate of Leo XIV.

With characteristic directness, intensity, and depth, Cardinal Sarah addresses the liturgy, mission work, religious vocations, tradition, atheism, the papacy, and the family, among many other current issues. In every case, our only path to freedom is radical, loving fidelity to Christ and to our Creator. In His Eminence’s words, “to submit to reality is already to submit to God.”

Unlike what the world preaches, the answer to the seemingly unsurmountable challenges of today and of tomorrow is not mere economic prosperity. After all, Cardinal Sarah says, “the worst violence does not arise from the shantytowns but is plotted in the gilded salons of the powerful, in the felt-lined cabins of the luxury yachts.” The answer is not a new Church, for “the Church needs, not to be reconstructed, but rather to be purified. Not to be reformed, but to be sanctified.”

Today, there is perhaps no voice more credible and resonant than that of Cardinal Sarah. He is a prophet not of doom, but of renewal. This book compiles his invaluable insight on current issues into one approachable volume.

“Cardinal Sarah, a true son of the Second Vatican Council and a holy proponent of the New Evangelization, reminds us that all authentic Catholic renewal is focused on Christ and making Christ known to the world for the world's sanctification. Read his eloquent call to missionary discipleship and be encouraged.” 
—George Weigel, Author, The Fragility of Order

“Who but the saintly Cardinal Sarah could write such a magnificent book at this critical hour in the Church's history? With candor and perspicuity, he holds nothing back. The Church as the Body of Christ is undergoing its own Passion. Blunt, incisive observations of doctrinal and moral confusions, of a spirit of paganism even within the Church, of the forsaking of sacrificial, missionary Catholic spirituality, are all wed in this singular text to an enormous love in Cardinal Sarah for prayer, for the Eucharist, for the Church itself, and for the great voices of Catholic tradition.”
—Fr. Donald Haggerty, Author, The Hour of Testing

“Cardinal Sarah foresees a future with no shortage of problems, great and small, and yet he can face it with the confidence of the Psalmist, who fears no evil (23:4) and knows he is a son of God (2:7). The Cardinal’s charity, too, is a marvel … This is the way Christianity should be done in the years leading to 2050 and beyond. The world offers us an infinity of reasons to be anxious and sad or angry. This book gives us the true and only alternative.”
—Mike Aquilina, author, Rabbles, Riots, and Ruins: Twelve Ancient Cities and How They Were Evangelized

“In this compelling reflection, Robert Cardinal Sarah offers a sobering assessment of the Church and contemporary society. He describes a world enticed by consumerism and characterized by spiritual indifference and moral depravity that recognizes, accepts, and celebrates all forms of debauchery condemned in the past. With this foundational reality—and in the midst of a technological revolution powered by artificial intelligence—he considers what the Church and the world may look like in 2050. Both thought-provoking and prophetic, his analysis and the hope-filled remedy he proposes may surprise readers.”
—Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Archdiocese of San Francisco

“With prophetic vision, candor and wisdom, the fruits of decades of prayer, asceticism, and intrepid fidelity to God and the truth, Cardinal Robert Sarah in 2050 calls the Church, the world and each of us to conversion and holiness. He leads us far beyond superficial debates to see what’s at stake and what must be done, helping us to grasp with depth, clarity, and freshness the importance and nature of the Church and her mission, the papacy and priesthood, prayer and the liturgy, Scripture and tradition, life and the family — as well as what threatens them from without and within. The conversation in this book is an open treasure chest for those who love God and want to serve him effectively.”
—Monsignor Roger J. Landry, National Director, The Pontifical Mission Societies

“Once again, His Eminence, Robert Cardinal Serra, has given us a deeply profound meditation on the prescient issues facing the Catholic Church today. Drawing upon Sacred Scripture, patristic authors, Church documents, and a multitude of noted authors, both past and present, Cardinal Serra raises our eyes to the permanent things, supernatural realities that point us to the divine. Like the prophets of old, Cardinal Serra sees the world “charged with the grandeur of God,” and speaks to us with an urgency that moves us to pause and take notice of the unseen world that lies just beyond a thin veil.”  
—Bishop James Conley, Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska­