“The world is a global village” has become one of the most familiar metaphors of describing modern existence. Although coined by media scholar and philosopher Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s, it captures something true about our time: technology, travel, and communication have made the world feel smaller and more connected than ever.
Yet there is another side to this reality. While we are more connected, we are not always more rooted. People can be constantly in touch across distances, yet less formed within shared ways of life, memory, and meaning.
This raises an important question for the Church today: how is faith passed on between generations when the everyday conditions that once supported its transmission are no longer stable or shared in the same way?
At stake is not only religious practice, but continuity itself — how faith is received, lived, and carried forward within families and communities over time.
