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MEXICO CITY - Ana Rita Valero received an unlikely request in 2008. Valero, an anthropologist and president of the Archconfraternity of Our Lady of Guadalupe, was asked by an official with the Mexican consulate in Shanghai to send two large images of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

VATICAN CITY - When the Catholic Church affirms the importance of how all the faithful understand matters of faith and morals, it is not saying Catholic beliefs are open to a popular vote, Pope Benedict XVI said.

BRAMPTON, ONT.  - St. Anne鱿鱼视频app Church in Brampton is offering parishioners the chance to re-examine their catechetical teachings during the Year of Faith through a series of guest speakers who鈥檒l engage them in deep philosophical conversation.

鈥淚t is difficult to have adult catechism so I thought that this year is a great opportunity to bring that sense of adult catechetical formation here,鈥� said pastor Fr. James Cherickal. 鈥淲hat people hear from the Toronto Star or the CBC or Cable Pulse 24, many of our Catholics think that whatever they say is the truth. So we need to let people know exactly what the Church鱿鱼视频app concerns are for these kinds of issues.鈥�

Over the next year the parish will host speakers on the second and third Wednesday of the month to address a variety of topics, including evangelical questions, treasures of the Catholic Church and the Church in media. Following the talks parishioners will have a chance to chime in with their own specific questions for the experts.

Among the notables slotted to speak are Fr. Tom Lynch, national director of Priests for Life, journalist and Register columnist Michael Coren and Salt + Light TV CEO Fr. Tom Rosica. Cardinal Thomas Collins will celebrate the closing Mass next November.

鈥淭hey are all very comfortable in taking questions because these are their fields of expertise and these are the things that they usually deal with,鈥� said Cherickal. 鈥淭hese are the people who have both intellect and the calling of the theme which they try to live in their life.鈥�

In addition to the speakers the parish will also be offering eucharistic adoration services from 7 p.m. to midnight, with confessions starting at 10 p.m., on the first Friday of each month. Months will close off with another learning opportunity, Apostolic Letters and Teaching of the Church, on the final Friday run primarily by Fr. Ephram Nariculam.

With so much happening it should be no surprise there were challenges in organizing everything.

鈥淏ecause St. Anne鱿鱼视频app is a very, very active and vibrant parish, it was very difficult to find the time. There (needed to be some) consistency in order for the people to remember the programs are going on,鈥� said Cherickal. 鈥淏y the grace of God everything worked together.鈥�

The Year of Faith Committee was instrumental in organizing the events, said Cherickal. Organized shortly after Cherickal came to the parish in July, the committee first met in late September to brainstorm ideas on how to best celebrate the Year of Faith.

鈥淔r. James wanted to do something to kind of allow the adults in the parish to have opportunities to hear talks and opportunities to deepen their faith,鈥� said committee member Dwight Stead. 鈥淰ery quickly the slate of speakers emerged.鈥�

As an academic consultant for the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, Stead sees the average parishioner鱿鱼视频app limited understanding of the Church鱿鱼视频app teachings on a regular basis. It is this reason that, when asked by Cherickal to join the committee, Stead immediately said yes.

鈥淎 lot of times adults go through the sacraments and then they kind of fall into a period of time when their faith isn鈥檛 really deepened,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hey have a lot of catechism when they are a student but when you鈥檙e a student you can鈥檛 really grasp a lot of the deep philosophical messages that adults need to know about.鈥�
While the intended audience is adults, both Stead and Cherickal encourage youth to attend 鈥� in fact they鈥檝e planned a speaker for each day of Catholic Education Week who鈥檒l address issues relevant to teens.

On Nov. 14 when the series kicked off with Fr. Joseph Singh, there was at least one teenager among the 100 or so who attended and now she plans to attend as many talks as possible.

鈥淚 thought it was going to be boring. I just thought the priest was going to be reading off a piece of paper,鈥� said 17-year-old Yesennia Guzman, who鱿鱼视频app mother insisted she attend.

鈥淚 feel that after that session that it is necessary for myself to go every week to learn something more about the faith. I learned how ignorant I was.鈥�

For Guzman the information that she received that Wednesday night has helped her to deepen her faith and allows her to live the Eucharist fuller 鈥� the goal Cherickal had in mind when dreaming up the idea in the first place.

鈥淭he goal is to bring them more closer to Christ and the Church.鈥�

SAN SALVADOR - The Salvadoran government will open a tourist route in honour of Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was killed by death squads in March 1980.

The initiative, which will begin next year, aims to boost tourism in the country and at the same time remember the legacy of Archbishop Romero, a staunch defender of human rights and the poor who was hated by the military and oligarchs.

The tour should ensure that 鈥渉is life and thought are known by foreign visitors and also by new generations of Salvadorans,鈥� El Salvador President Mauricio Funes said from Archbishop Romero鱿鱼视频app crypt in the Metropolitan Cathedral, where he announced the plan.

The route will include sites like the cathedral, where the archbishop denounced the injustices that occurred in this country in the late 1970s. On the steps of the cathedral, dozens of people participating in the archbishop鱿鱼视频app funeral were massacred by government forces March 30, 1980.

It also will include the Romero Centre and Martyrs Museum, both on the campus of Central American University. They display objects belonging to the archbishop, to the Jesuits murdered in 1989 and to Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, the first priest executed by death squads, in 1977.

The tour includes the Museum of the Word and Image and Divine Providence Hospital, where Archbishop Romero was shot dead while celebrating Mass.

The Truth Commission, created in 1993 to investigate political crimes committed during the 1980-92 civil war, established that Archbishop Romero鱿鱼视频app assassination was carried out by a right-wing command led by Maj. Roberto D鈥橝ubuisson, founder of Nationalist Republican Alliance. D鈥橝ubuisson died of cancer in 1992.

TORONTO - The New Evangelization that anchors Pope Benedict XVI鱿鱼视频app call for a Year of Faith looks a little different from an African perspective, Cardinal Peter Turkson told a capacity audience at the Regis College chapel in Toronto.

The Ghanaian cardinal who heads up the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace delivered the Martin Royakers Lecture Sept. 26, speaking about 鈥淰atican II: A Council of Justice and Peace.鈥� He also spoke with The Catholic Register in an exclusive interview.

For African Catholics the New Evangelization is a challenge to form better leaders in the Church and society, and an invitation to deepen the commitment of all Christians to the body of Christ, Turkson said.

Since the Second Vatican Council the African Church has grown to a degree almost inconceivable to the Churches in North America and Europe, Turkson said. From 29 million Catholics in 1962 to 186 million today, Africa鱿鱼视频app Catholic population has grown 541 per cent.

The old image of Africa as a mission land under the tutelage of European and North American priests and sisters is beginning to fade. Between 1962 and 2012 African- born priests have risen from just 15,000 to more than 40,000. Seminaries are bursting. There were 26,000 religious women from Africa in 1962, compared to 68,000 today.

Many Africans have become missionaries to underserved regions of Canada, the United States and Europe.

It seems that the old evangelization worked.

鈥淲e did teach people the catechism and we did baptize them,鈥� Turkson told The Catholic Register.

But that doesn鈥檛 mean Africa doesn鈥檛 now need the New Evangelization 鈥� a concept first spoken about by Pope John Paul II at a meeting of the bishops of Latin America in Puebla, Mexico, in 1979.

Just as the majority of African Catholics trace their Catholic roots to the great ecumenical council of 1962-1965, the majority of African nations were released out of colonialism either just before or during Vatican II.

鈥淭he educated elite, the educated class that emerged in the emerging states, mostly was educated in mission schools,鈥� pointed out Turkson.

Unfortunately they included corrupt politicians such as Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko, who amassed a personal fortune of some $5 billion, and Robert Mugabe, still in power in Zimbabwe.

鈥淭hat has caused several Church leaders in Africa to sit back and think, 鈥榃hat did we do wrong?鈥� 鈥� said Turkson.

But it isn鈥檛 just the politicians and business leaders of the continent that worry African bishops. In Turkson鱿鱼视频app native Ghana almost a quarter of the population is Pentecostal, compared to just 15 per cent who are Catholic. Many people opt for a simpler, more personal, more emotionally expressive brand of faith.

What鱿鱼视频app missing in the merely intellectual and notional religion of Africa鱿鱼视频app leaders and the purely personal religion of the poor is the social doctrine of the Church, Turkson said.

鈥淏ut their social consciousness, what we now call the social doctrine of the Church, wasn鈥檛 taught much. That was missing. People became Christians but the transition 鈥� the fact they were Christian 鈥� did not impact much on their social lives. That is something we are now discovering,鈥� he said.

Just recording baptisms won鈥檛 do any more. Nor will mere catechism lessons make Christians.

鈥淭hat is not quite the experience of conversion,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he Evangelical movement is appealing more to the heart, with lively music, lively prayer, the power of the spiritual world.鈥�

All of that is embedded in the Catholic way of living out the sacraments, but it has to be uncoveredand presented in new ways, said Turkson.

鈥淲e need to find a way of bringing it down to basically these needs 鈥� to people鱿鱼视频app life situations,鈥� he said. 鈥淎ll of that serves as vehicles of God鱿鱼视频app grace.鈥�

He believes Catholic parish life has to afford people more opportunities to bear witness and testify to their faith.

鈥淭he world is now looking for witnesses,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 make it alive. We don鈥檛 make it come alive in such a way that it encourages them, motivates them, touches their lives in faith. It would be great if we fashioned a little space in our worship for moments like that.鈥�

The global Church is in Rome to talk about how it talks to the world. The topic is the new evangelization,meaning all the ways the Church presents Christ to the world and how we are all called to serve.

The Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith is more than a distant talking shop for high Church officials. It also provides the keys to the Year of Faith which launched Oct. 11, the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council.

It鱿鱼视频app the 25th such synod since the close of Vatican II and runs Oct. 7 to 28.

There will be two English and two French bishops from Canada among the approximately 170 bishops chosen by bishops鈥� conferences around the the world. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops elected to send Quebec City鱿鱼视频app Archbishop Gerald Cyprien Lacroix, Antigonish Bishop Brian Dunn, St.-Hyacinthe Bishop Francois Lapierre and Nelson Bishop John Corriveau. 

The voting members of the synod will also include 20 bishops from Eastern Catholic Churches, 25 bishops who work in the Vatican heading up various offices, 35 bishops named directly by the Pope and 10 representatives from religious orders chosen by the Union of Superiors General. 

Regis College professor of theology Sr. Gill Goulding will be the Canadian among 49 theological experts assigned to assist the synod fathers and contribute to discussions. The theologians and thinkers don鈥檛 get to vote, but their contributions to discussions may substantially contribute to what the bishops vote on.

How the synod will be understood outside Vatican City may have a lot to do with another Canadian.  Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, CEO of Salt + Light Catholic Media Foundation, will be the English-speaking press secretary for the duration of the synod.

Though there will be lots of talk about new media and the digital age, Fr. Steve Bossi doesn鈥檛 want the bishops to come back from Rome with a social media strategy or a new comfort level with smartphones.The new evangelization is about a lot more than technology or better media management, said the director of programs at Toronto鱿鱼视频app Paulist Centre.

鈥淭hey need to come back with a vision,鈥� said Bossi. 鈥淭hey need to come back with a sense of what is the modern world and how does it function. Then, how do we speak our faith into that modern world?鈥�

In the lineamenta or discussion paper for the synod prepared by Croatian Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, the Vatican identifies six ways the world has changed and made it more difficult to proclaim the Gospel in our times:

o 鈥淧rofound secularism鈥� has made it difficult for religion to be heard and understood. An overly secularized culture keeps people cocooned in self-interest. 鈥淭emptations to superficiality and self-centredness, arising from a predominating hedonistic and consumer-oriented mentality, arenot easily overcome,鈥� said the lineamenta.

o Migration is pulling people out of their own cultural context and creating new cultures thathave few marks of permanence, 鈥渓eaving little space for the great traditions of life, including thoseof religion.鈥�

o Social communications have developed so rapidly the Church has been left wondering how toengage in the new global conversation. 鈥淭he formation of a culture centred on passing novelties, thepresent moment and outward appearances, indeed a society which is incapable of remembering the past and with no sense of the future,鈥� is an unwelcoming place for 2,000 years of tradition dedicated to a single transcendent reality.

o Economics has become as globalized as every other aspect of our lives. As the butterflies of globalization have emerged from the cocoons of national and local economies, markets have shed ethical constraints and forgotten their moral purposes.

o Science proposes a worldview that often seems as broad and hopeful as religion. 鈥淪cience and technology are in danger of becoming today鱿鱼视频app new idols.鈥�

o Political life has changed massively since the fall of communism. Although the Church does not mourn the passing of an atheistic, materialist ideology, the triumph of markets, the emergence of violent and politicized appeals to religion in Asia and the Islamic world and the environmental crisis makes for a situation 鈥渇rought with risks and new temptations of dominion and power.鈥�

Eterovic鱿鱼视频app six points seem like an overwhelmingly negative assessment of the world. It would be easy to incorrectly conclude that the new evangelization is about the Church standing in opposition to the modern age, retreating into an intellectual and emotional bunker constructed from comforting bits of its own history.

But the new evangelization is not about fear and loathing of the world, said Bossi.

鈥淚t鱿鱼视频app part of our faith that we believe that the Holy Spirit moves through time and through human experience,鈥� he said. 鈥淕od has not abandoned us in this world and the Church doesn鈥檛 have to be out there somehow speaking against the modern world.鈥�

Isaac Hecker, founder of Bossi鱿鱼视频app Paulist order, would have recognized many of Eterovic鱿鱼视频app challenges as his own in the United States of 150 years ago. Hecker was faced with a population of immigrant Catholics who had been knocked off the moorings of their traditional Catholic culture by the experience of migration. The 19th century was an age of wonders that made communication (telegraph) nearly instantaneous and travel(trains) rapid and cheap. Hecker responded by preaching and writing in the language of his times.

The Paulists today carry on their founder鱿鱼视频app new evangelization with their own involvement in media and in adult education.

It鱿鱼视频app not so much about which media carries the words as it is about the authenticity and honesty of the words, said Bossi. Attempts to carefully manage the media by sticking to an approved, prepared text are rarely persuasive in a culture that values honest, spontaneous responses.

鈥淵ou don鈥檛 get that sense of speaking from the heart. And yet, what are people looking for?鈥� asked Bossi. 鈥淭hey aren鈥檛 looking for data they can get into their head. They鈥檙e looking for someone who can speak to them at the level of human experience.鈥�

The decree granting indulgences for the Year of Faith makes it clear Pope Benedict XVI has no intention of sending Catholics fleeing from the world.

鈥淎ll the faithful, individually and in community, will be called to give open witness of their faith before others in the particular circumstances of daily life,鈥� reads the Sept. 14 decree.

The Pope has also signaled that he views the new evangelization from an ecumenical perspective. On the personal invitation of Pope Benedict XVI, one of the first speakers at the synod on new evangelization will be the Anglican Communion鱿鱼视频app scholarly leader Archbishop Rowan Williams. Williams was to address synod fathers Oct. 10.

鈥淎 new evangelization means that the Church must convincingly sustain her efforts at uniting all Christians in a common witness to the world of the prophetic and transforming power of the Gospel message,鈥� reads Eterovic鱿鱼视频app lineamenta.

In fact, the new evangelization does not begin with what the Church says to the world, or even how it says it. The starting point is what the Church is to the world and in the world.

鈥淚n the end, the expression new evangelization requires finding new approaches to evangelization so as 鈥榯o be Church鈥� in today鱿鱼视频app everchanging social and cultural situations,鈥� reads the lineamenta.

As a theologian consulting with the bishops at the synod, it鱿鱼视频app the existential hope of the Gospel as it is lived that Goulding wants to emphasize.

鈥淚n many ways it seems to me that the heart of the new evangelization lies in living radically the faith that we have,鈥� she said.

TORONTO - The Toronto Catholic District School Board, through its A Catholic Call To Service (ACCTS) program, is looking to expose students to the true meaning ofservice.

鈥淚t鱿鱼视频app a program in which our students get an opportunity to witness, in action, their faith,鈥� said Deb Gove, the board鱿鱼视频app secondary resource person forreligious education. 鈥淚t is a totally unbelievable experience for boththe students and the people (they help).鈥�

ACCTS, which launches Oct. 17, will see 35 Catholic secondary schools across the city send 10 students into the downtown region to help out at a varietyof social assistance agencies. These agencies include shelters, missions and food distribution groups.

On the day of service, students meet and are divided into groups before heading off to the appropriate location. Everything is wrapped up around 7 p.m.following a liturgical service. But there is more to it than just a single day of service.

鈥淚t鱿鱼视频app not just a day, it鱿鱼视频app a taste of what service is like,鈥� said Gove. 鈥淚t鱿鱼视频app life-long learning.鈥�

Lasting about 10 hours, the day does not count towards the students鈥� compulsory 40 hours of community service for graduation in the Catholic system. The focusis on teaching students about the importance of helping others without any personal gain.

鈥淚f we鈥檙e just out there looking after each other and not looking after those who need it we鈥檙e not doing what Jesus asked us to,鈥� said Gove.

鈥淚t鱿鱼视频app important that we take care of the poor and vulnerable.鈥� That鱿鱼视频app a message which stuck with Raffi Degralstanian after participating in ACCTS last fall.

鈥淚 hadn鈥檛 actually had a good idea of what service was until I was actually there,鈥� said the Grade 12 Brebeuf College School student. 鈥淚t definitely opened my eyes to when people need service and how I should give it to them.鈥�

Degralstanian was one of the students who helped clean up Mary鱿鱼视频app House, a downtown women鱿鱼视频app shelter, after it suffered significant damage from a fire.
The experience touched him so much that when the opportunity to participate in this year鱿鱼视频app 15th anniversary program came, Degralstanian immediately wentonline to register.

鈥淚t was like wow, I did something here, I was able to contribute my physical being and apply it to this place and it made a difference,鈥� said Degralstanian.
鈥淕iving your sweat and being there physically doing something is much more meaningful than donating five or 10 bucks.鈥�

When the group of 10, which included Degralstanian, returned to Brebeuf the following school day from their various assignments they instantly becamepivotal figures in establishing the school鱿鱼视频app own Street Patrol program. Details of the school鱿鱼视频app program, which is independent from ACCTS, are still beingdeveloped, but the objective is feeding the homeless at least once a month during the school year.

鈥淚t speaks a lot to the meaningful experience they receive on this given day,鈥� said Robert Gregoris, Brebeuf chaplaincy team member.

鈥淔or a lot of them it is an eye opener. A lot of them don鈥檛 see the difficulties and the challenges that the human spirit goes through.鈥� Although Gregoris said he understands the importance of the day鱿鱼视频app message of unrewarded service he does think the students receive something in return 鈥� a closer connection with God.

鈥淚t鱿鱼视频app a real tangible way where young people get to experience the message of Christ and the face of Christ,鈥� said Gregoris.
鈥淚t gets to their heart, it gets to their soul.鈥�

MAYO, YUKON TERRITORY - When we moved to the Yukon almost four years ago, it wasn鈥檛 to work in the missions. I was employed as a schoolteacher and my wife Tina stayed home with our young son Johnathan. We moved to Mayo for adventure, change and reprieve from city life. It was not meant to be a long-termcommitment, nor working for the Church.

The village of Mayo has a population of a little more than 400 people, predominantly the Na Cho Nyak Dun First Nation. Although we did not move to the Yukon to work in the missions, it seems God had other plans.

Sr. Angela Shea of the Sisters of Notre Dame was resident administrator for Christ the King mission. She had been here almost 20 years where she led the Catholic community and was an integral part of the larger community. During our first year, there was talk of the 80-year-old sister leaving Mayo and retiring to her native Prince Edward Island. In talking with Whitehorse Bishop Gary Gordon, Tina and I expressed ourwillingness to serve the Church. With Sr. Angela leaving, the timing was good. Gordon asked if we would fill in as mission administrators. His need for missionworkers and our interest and desire to serve the Church came together, and we began discussing the transition, which took place in 2009.

There are about 47 Catholics in Mayo. Besides keeping the lights and heat on in the church and rectory, we help keep the Catholic faith alive in the small community. We arrange for the priest in Dawson to come twice a month for Mass and other sacraments, and I lead the community in a Communion service on Sundays when he is not present. We usually meet for coffee and goodies or a meal after to catch up on news and share a laugh. We say the rosary with others and have Stations of the Cross during Lent. Each day, we strive to be a living witness to the Catholic faith and administer to the spiritual and other needs of Catholics. We call Fr. Ernest Emeka Emeodi from Dawson or Gordon when assistance or adviceis required.

Many joys and challenges of lay ministry abound in this remote part of Canada. Mayo is located near 63 degrees latitude, halfway between Whitehorse and the Arctic Circle. Mayo holds the distinction of being both the hottest and the coldest community in the Yukon. It is not uncommon for temperatures to dip to minus 50 Celsius for some days, and for a cold spell of minus 40 or more for a week.

While there are both joys and challenges, the joys definitely outweigh the latter. Some joys include living in the rectory which is attached to the church and having the Blessed Sacrament available 24 hours a day. There is joy knowing that although at times we feel we have a small role, it is nonetheless vital for the Catholic faith and Church locally. There is a deep inner joy knowing we are in the service of God and His work.

Since starting in Mayo, Tina and I have moved on but continue our mission work with the Church. We recently moved to Yellowknife, N.W.T., where we are ministering at Trapper鱿鱼视频app Lake Spirituality Centre.I pray that more lay people 鈥� single and families 鈥� will be open to working for the Church in the missions for a time, be it a year or two or more. Perhaps an interest and desire might be awakened and one may hear a call. As a lay couple and family, it is not for everyone, but it has certainly been rewarding and a real blessing for us, not to mention the great adventure.

TORONTO - To celebrate the Year of Faith, the archdiocese of Toronto鱿鱼视频app office of formation for discipleship has undertaken its most focused effort at faith formation to date.

鈥淭his is an opportunity in this year for people to pause and to consider the role of faith in our own lives and why we are eager to share that faith with other people,鈥� said Bill Targett, director of the office of formation for discipleship.

Targett said the archdiocese will be offering 18 programs across the archdiocese for the Year of Faith, which kicked off Oct. 11, alongside the 50th anniversary of the opening of Second Vatican Council and the 20th anniversary of the promulgation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and ends Nov. 24, 2013, on the feast of Christ the King.

鈥淭hey range from single night workshops to look at one topic up to and including an eight-part series,鈥� said Targett. 鈥淎nd then, in between those extremes, there鱿鱼视频app a whole variety of other workshops.鈥�

Topics vary from Catholic social teaching and basic teachings of the Catholic Church to lectio divina and prayer. Free of charge, the hosting parishes will become 鈥渞egional centres of formation,鈥� said Targett.

There will be three rotations of the same workshops in the fall, winter and spring at different locations to geographically accommodate as many people as possible, he added.

鈥淭he Year of Faith has been a long time coming,鈥� said Targett. 鈥淛ohn Paul II was speaking about it already in the early 鈥�90s and for us, it鱿鱼视频app exciting that it鱿鱼视频app finally here. And we look forward to contributing whatever we can to helping to replant the Gospel in the West.鈥�

Targett said he regards parishioners as the 鈥渇rontline of people.鈥�

鈥淚f we can help convince them of the important role that faith has in their lives, I think they鈥檙e the best example to spread that information through a wider community so that people who are not of faith look at a Catholic and say, 鈥榃hat is it about that person that makes them happy as they are?鈥欌��

For the younger crowd, the archdiocese of Toronto鱿鱼视频app Office of Catholic Youth will be running catechetical events based on the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church and YOUCAT: The Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church.

A solemn opening Mass to launch the Year of Faith will be celebrated by Cardinal Thomas Collins Oct. 14 at St. Paul鱿鱼视频app Basilica in Toronto. In addition, Collins will be dedicating this year鱿鱼视频app lectio divina programs to a biblical understanding of faith.

For more information on the office of formation for discipleship鱿鱼视频app Year of Faith workshops, see .

Since the late Pope John Paul II coined the phrase in an address to Latin American bishops in the late 1970s, Catholic thinkers, writers, theologians and pastors have debated what the new evangelization really means. In the lineamenta sent to more than 200 bishops earlier this year in advance of the synod, Archbishop Nikola Eterovic offers several definitions. Among them:

o The new evangelization is primarily addressed to those who have drifted from the Church in traditionally Christian countries.
o There should also be a dialogue with those to whom religion is something foreign.
o The new evangelization is primarily a spiritual activity to recapture the courage and forcefullness of the first Christians and first missionaries.
o As an evangelizer, the Church begins by evangelizing herself.
o Evangelization is facing new challenges which are putting accepted practices in question and are weakening customary, well-established ways of doing things.
o The Church does not give up or retreat into herself; instead, she undertakes a project to revitalize herself.
o The new evangelization is a frame of mind, a courageous manner of acting.
o A new evangelization means, then, to work in our local churches to devise a plan... to transmit the Gospel of hope in a practical way.... becoming more and more the artisan of the civilization of love.
o A new evangelization also means to have the boldness to raise the question of God in the context of these problems.
o In the end, the expression new evangelization requires finding new approaches to evangelization so as to be Church in today鱿鱼视频app ever-changing social and cultural situations.