Worshipping at an intentionally "empty shrine" -- and proud of it!

I have learned much from Michael Novak over the years, but consider the logic of the following passage:  “In a genuine pluralistic society, there is no one sacred canopy.  By intention there is not.  At its spiritual core, there is an empty shrine.  That shrine is left empty in the knowledge that no one word, image, or symbol is worthy of what all seek there.  Its emptiness, therefore, represents the transcendence which approached by free consciences from a virtually infinite number of directions. . . .  Such an order calls forth not only a new theology but a new type of religion.”  Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism 53, 69 (1982, 1991).  Novak wants to rewrite theology and create "a new type of religion" in order to prop up pluralism.  The importance of instantiating pluralism is so transcendent in Novak's eyes, in fact, that he is willing to compel all of us to be arrayed around an "empty shrine."  I look in vain in the theology of the Catholic religion for support for worship at an "empty shrine."  The tomb was in fact empty on Easter morning, but that was because Christ had risen from the dead. Now He is to be worshipped and obeyed and loved. Pluralism is a fact about our world, to be sure, but not a reason to invent a new religion.  Pluralism requires prudent action and lots of toleration, but not the intentional fabrication of an "empty shrine.". And, by the way, is it true that Christ is, as Novak contends, "not worthy of what all seek?"  Not all people of good will acknowledge Christ as their redeemer and king, and, within the limits of the common good, individuals should be free to practice even false religions.  But justice requires me to resist the suggestion that Christ is somehow "not worthy."  Quite the reverse, "Domine, non sum dignus, ut intres sub tectum meum  . . . ."  This prayer that was prayed six times in the Usus Antiquior is prayed only once in Pope Paul's new Mass, and in that, I am afraid, there can be no cause for surprise. New theology, new religion?  It wasn't my idea.