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Pope Benedict XVI announced he is establishing a pontifical council for new evangelization to find ways “to re-propose the perennial truth of the Gospel” in regions where secularism is smothering church practice.
Leading an evening prayer service June 28 at Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, Pope Benedict said there are areas of the globe that have been known as Christian for centuries, but where in the past few centuries “the process of secularization has produced a serious crisis” in people’s sense of what it means to be Christian and to belong to the church.
thecatholicspirit.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3983&Itemid=33“I have decided to create a new organism, in the form of a pontifical council, with the principal task of promoting a renewed evangelization in the countries where the first proclamation of faith has already resounded and where there are churches of ancient foundation present, but which are living through a progressive secularization of society and a kind of ‘eclipse of the sense of God,’” he said.
One report suggests that the new office will be named “The Pontifical Council for New Evangelisation.”
uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE65R50O20100628
It sounds as if this new Pontifical Council might be separate from the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, but I am not sure.
Anyways, the Pope has periodically mentioned the need to re-evangelize Europe. Its good to see action starting.