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‘Crisis of indifference’ shows need for evangelisation: Pope
Thursday, 02 June 2011
VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News) - Pope Benedict stressed the urgency of evangelising modern society, saying that Christians today face the task of reaching a world that grows increasingly apathetic to the message of the Gospel.
“The crisis we are living through,” he said, “carries with it signs of the exclusion of God from people’s lives, a general indifference to the Christian faith, and even the intention of marginalising it from public life”, the Pope told members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation on 30 May, as they prepare for their 7-28 October 2012 synod where Bishops and others will discuss the late Pope John Paul II’s vision of proposing the Christian faith in new ways.
Pope Benedict explained that “the term ‘new evangelisation’ recalls the need of a new way of evangelising, especially for those who live in a situation like today’s where the development of secularisation has left deep marks on even traditionally Christian countries.” He noted that “proclaiming Jesus Christ, the sole Saviour of the world, is more complex today than in the past, but our task continues to be the same as at the beginning of our history. The mission hasn’t changed, just as the enthusiasm and courage that motivated the apostles and first disciples should not change.”
therecord.com.au/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2616&Itemid=28
Thursday, 02 June 2011
VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News) - Pope Benedict stressed the urgency of evangelising modern society, saying that Christians today face the task of reaching a world that grows increasingly apathetic to the message of the Gospel.
“The crisis we are living through,” he said, “carries with it signs of the exclusion of God from people’s lives, a general indifference to the Christian faith, and even the intention of marginalising it from public life”, the Pope told members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation on 30 May, as they prepare for their 7-28 October 2012 synod where Bishops and others will discuss the late Pope John Paul II’s vision of proposing the Christian faith in new ways.
Pope Benedict explained that “the term ‘new evangelisation’ recalls the need of a new way of evangelising, especially for those who live in a situation like today’s where the development of secularisation has left deep marks on even traditionally Christian countries.” He noted that “proclaiming Jesus Christ, the sole Saviour of the world, is more complex today than in the past, but our task continues to be the same as at the beginning of our history. The mission hasn’t changed, just as the enthusiasm and courage that motivated the apostles and first disciples should not change.”
therecord.com.au/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2616&Itemid=28