Carlo M. Martini was cardinal of the largest diocese in the world, a scholar, and one of the most renowned men of the church. Georg Sporschill has worked in prisons and lived with drug addicted street children in Romania and Moldavia. The two Jesuits met in Jerusalem and became friends: two worlds, one faith-and a passionate search for ways in which the message of Jesus of Nazareth can still be effective for tomorrow. In a series of conversations they ask what must be changed so that Christianity itself has a future. The questions from young people are the catalyst for deep through. Is the future only dark? Where are the rays of light on the horizon? What would Jesus say today? Shortly before his death in August 2012, Cardinal Martini, who was once considered papabile (worthy of being elected pope), gave an interview in which he challenged the church to embark on a radical journey of change. Night Conversations is a fascinating, personal book that develops his thoughts and offers a tantalizing glimpse of what the church might have been like had he occupied the Chair of Peter. Book jacket.