While in Florence recently, I came across an essay, “'Spiritucl'—'Spiritualité'” (Chriatus, October, 1969) by my colleague, the French Jesuit Charles Bernard. These terms have a long and intricate history, yet, as Bernard suggested, there are many types of spirituality in the Christian world that are present by right and by necessity within the overarching structure of the same faith. On my return to Rome, 1 remarked to Bernard, a propos his essay, that I had the impression that spirituality was becoming an ever more important subject in the contemporary world. That is correct, he told me. for our current problems are at bottom spiritual ones out of which our public difficulties arise.