document.writeln("Pope Benedict XVI's 2011 apostolic exhortation on Africa notes that Africa, like the rest of the world, is experiencing a culture shock that attacks traditional values and ways of living. But even in the midst of this 'crisis of faith and hope,' the pope stressed, Africa has the ability to be a spiritual inspiration because of the human and religious resources of its people.<br><br>In his book 'Theology Brewed in an African Pot,' Jesuit Father Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, now the provincial of the six countries that comprise Eastern Africa, discusses African spirituality and the importance of having a balanced view of Africa, which has as much to give as it receives:<br><br>'Faith, salvation, redemption, belief, worship, life ... represent shared experiences for Africans. ... In Africa, sin or wrongdoing is not an individual and isolated act. An act is judged sinful to the extent that it ... can pollute the entire community and disrupt the cosmic harmony.'<br><br>One specific proposal in Pope Benedict's exhortation was for a continentwide Year of Reconciliation for 'all the evils and injuries mutually inflicted in Africa' and for the reconciliation of people who have been hurt in the church and in society.<br><br>");