Our future society has started already… more conservative, peaceble, religious?

Our future society has started already… more conservative, peaceble, religious? A pilgrim takes a cellphone photo as he waits for Pope Francis to arrive to lead a prayer vigil during World Youth Day at Campo da Graça in Park Tejo in Lisbon, Portugal, August 5, 2023. Photo: OSV News/Bob Roller

Predictions are always a risky enterprise, since nothing is certain in this life – “we live in no abiding city,” as the Gospel puts it. Yet the world we are entering in 2026 has already been ascertained, in one predominant aspect: Europe is an ageing society. The EU is already the oldest society in the…

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