CONTENTS: 1. Introduction, 2. Being Authentically Plural in the Contemporary World: Challenges and Prospects, 3. Call to be Authentic 'Religious' in the Contemporary World: Respect for Pluralism and Interreligious Dialogue, 4. Invitation to a Pluralistic Attitude, Interculturality and Interreligious Dialolgue, 5. Challenges of the Modern World that Confront the Church and Society: Search for Viable Alternatives and Soluitions to the Groans of the World, 6. Dialogue and Ecumenism: A Challenge and an Imperative, 7. Meeting of the Sacred and Secular: The Cosmotheandric Vision, 8. Mystical Experience-Reaching out to Being through Beings, 9. Exercise of Authority as Availability and Service in Humility: Pope Francis as Exemplar, 10. Sacred Secularity as Spirituality and Holiness, 11. Religious Pluralism in the Context of Mission Today, 12. The Challenge of Theology to be more Relevant and Authentic in the Contemporary Pluralistic Context, 13. The Peace Prayer of St. Francis, 14. The Hymn to Agni: An Exegetical and Philological Study (RV 1:1), 15. Franciscan Approach to Interreligious Dialogue with Special Reference to Islam, 16. Israel's Prophets and Man's Economic Liberation, 17. Prophets as Transformers of the Society, 18. The Prophetic Dimension of Vowed Religious Life: The Call to Live with a New Vision and Mission Espousing a Counter-Culture, 19. Indian Spirituality and Sannyasa, 20. Magic, Myth and Religion, 21. One God, One Humanity, Many Religions, 22. Atheism and its Challenges to World Religions.