Africa and the Future of Catholicism: Critical Considerations on the Formation of Candidates for Consecrated Life and Priesthood

In the face of a vibrant Christianity, the hope is that the Church in Africa will contribute substantially to the future of Catholicism. Nonetheless, a deeper examination of the challenges facing Catholicism today, and a critical engagement with Christianity in 
Africa would expose a number of challenges, which the African Church must confront for a truly meaningful enrichment of Catholicism.

This paper examines some of the factors that shape Catholicism today and the place of the African Church within these factors. It premises this exploration on the thesis that cultivating grounded-dialogic and 
inculturated faith could be a credible resource for attaining the required task of Africa's role in the future of Catholicism, and that without such dialogic-grounded faith in the formation of candidates for Priesthood and Consecrated life, its enrichment of the global Church might be jeopardised.