Catholic Church and Contemporary Modernity: a Look from Latin America

This article deals with the catholic church situation in front of the gravity crisis that it is going through nowadays, which one puts on discussion its place in front of the complexity of the society and the peculiarities of the multiples modernities which characterize it. One catholic church that through the years has carried through changes of direction and news positions that tends to define its adaptation, resistance or confrontation to the changes that the society has experienced, and which is at this moment at the beginning of a new pontificate. Renewed Questions and new challenges that come in front of a diversity of problematic and demands in the setting of this contemporary modernity.