Bei Den Menschen Sein

These days, many people experience church as an institution far removed from life that no longer has anything to do with the things most important to them. Can a church like that, one that comes across to people mainly as a hierarchy, have any future at all? Or will it continue to be less and less relevant for people's lives? Bernd Jochen Hilberath describes a vision that has a future: if the church wants to continue to be relevant for people, then it must be a church of the people. With reference to the Second Vatican Council, Bernd Jochen Hilberath provides encouraging answers to the decisive questions: what, who and where is the church? What meaning does church have?