Sentences with phrase «which evangelization»

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Here we find the pope's great worry: At precisely the moment for the world's great evangelization and the great manifestation of love, the devices by which the world has been prepared — economic and technological — are excluding the charity and denying the truth that «judge and direct» human development.

The authoritative interpretation of Vatican II by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI has focused this evolution through the prism of what these two men of the council have called the New Evangelization, which is now the grand strategy of the Catholic Church for the twenty - first century and beyond.

Evangelii gaudium, which followed a 2012 Synod of Bishops meeting on «The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith,» has long been seen as a sweeping statement of Francis's agenda.

Young local Churches begin as «mission territory,» and their bishops are chosen in consultation with what's now called the «Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples» (but which everyone in Rome still refers to by its old name, «Propaganda,» or simply «Prop»).

He asked that superiors be generous in allocating time and resources to this work which is indeed an important area of evangelization.

Had Pell not become archbishop of Melbourne, and later cardinal - archbishop of Sydney, it's a reasonable bet that Australian Catholicism today would resemble the Irish Church from which the Church Down Under largely descends: scandal - ridden, demoralized, intellectually shoddy, and somewhere out on the far periphery of the New Evangelization.

We live in an increasingly post-Christian Western world, which presents exceptional challenges for evangelization.

He is the true originator of the «new evangelization,» which John Paul II has so ardently promoted.

Although with a less dramatic involvement in native thought and culture than Ricci's, both Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries in the 19th century often managed to combine a commitment to evangelization in the name of Jesus with a deep (and ever deepening) respect for the native culture and indigenous traditions of the nations to which they had been sent.

In 2004 he led a study group on reconciliation for the Lausanne Forum on World Evangelization, which met in Thailand (see the groups paper, «God's Mission as Reconciliation,» at www.

First through the YMCA, which staged a evangelization in Nuremberg, I got to know the gospel at the age of 21.

The precise form of evangelization to which believers are called depends upon their particular vocations.

Schaeffer created much consternation among fellow evangelicals by threatening not to appear at the rostrum of the International Congress on World Evangelization which convened in July of 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Most of our missionaries are recent college graduates who return to the college campus and invite students into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and his Church and inspire and equip them for a lifetime of Christ - centered evangelization, discipleship, and friendships in which they teach other to do the same.

This plain diocesan priest did enjoy the foreword to the new edition by Member of Parliament David Alton in which he underscores the importance of ECT for sectarian strife in Northern Ireland and for evangelization in England, where less than 10 percent of the population attends church.

It includes both formation through evangelization and enculturation — the processes by which we are converted and initiated into the church and its tradition and thereby come to acknowledge ourselves as a people in covenant with God — and education, or those processes of actualization that help us to live out our baptism by making the church's faith more vital, conscious and active in our lives; by deepening our relationship to God; and by realizing our vocation in the world so that God's saving activity may be manifested in persons and in the church.

Is evangelization a process which leads to the «establishment» of something?

Speaking last October to the International Congress of Military Ordinariates, Pope Benedict declared: «The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and witness to Christ, and to promote his gospel of peace and love in every environment and every culture.»

Guadalupe provides the spark which will allow the people to rise out of the realm of death like the Phoenix rising out of the ashes of the past — not just a return to the past but the emergence of a spectacular newness.10 In sharp contrast to the total rupture with the past which was initiated by the conquest - evangelization enterprise, Guadalupe provided the necessary sense of continuity which is basic to human existence.

The imperative for Christian unity, to which ECT bears witness, is directly related to the task of world evangelization.

A collection of Church documents on Catholic education which affirm the Catholic school as integral to the mission of the Church and at the heart of its efforts at evangelization.

In this work Kader Attia investigates the Vatican's holdings of art from Africa, much of which was plundered by Christian missionaries in the context of their evangelization efforts on...

About Blog Catholic Sistas is a multi contributor blog whose simple mission is rooted in John Paul II's call for the faithful to engage in the New Evangelization, which was encouraged by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and is being realized through Pope Francis» leadership.