His principal message at present is
about evangelisation, echoing the call of recent popes, and giving voice to a widespread concern about a sense of life having lost its meaning for many people «There is this reduction of living to a general soft - core list of things: money, health, individualism.
Not exact matches
One of the most significant speeches Benedict made — as Cardinal Ratzinger, in the Jubilee Year 2000 — was one he gave to catechists
about the meaning of the phrase «the New
Evangelisation», and its central image applies very much to his own papacy.
In this book he writes
about the danger of the New
Evangelisation being an abstract or empty formula, which by attempting to be all - inclusive, ends up lacking real vigour.
I'm talking
about Catholic street
evangelisation, something I came across three years ago on a postgraduate gap year and which I've been doing ever since.
His position allows him to see this and many other aspects of
evangelisation, including some that are often overlooked, and enables him to speak authoritatively
about them.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was interviewed on Premier Christian Radio this morning
about Thy Kingdom Come — a week of prayer for the
evangelisation...
The Church opens the Year of Faith [1] with a Synod on the New
Evangelisation at a time when, in England, there are a number of issues
about the adequacy of theology programmes in preparing their students for the task of evangelising.
All the same, there seems to be a reasonable hope that Cardinal Ouellet will now, having noticed (probably with the Holy Father's direct involvement) this country's needs, set himself to showing «how an episcopate can be reconfigured for the challenges of the new
evangelisation» here, too; so it could be that in 10 years» time our Bishops» Conference will have a very different look
about it.
A troubling question is why, when there has been so much airing of views
about the new
evangelisation leading up to Pope Benedict's Porta Fidei and the Synod, we have seen so little actual fruit.
Pope John Paul II is quoted twice, principally on the «spirituality of communion» in Novo Millennio Inuente, and some relevant documents of his are footnoted, but there is no reference to his writings
about the gap between faith and culture, or indeed to his concepts of the «new
evangelisation» or to his interpretation of the evangelising of culture.