Pope announces formation of pontifical council for new evangelization (against secularism)

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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.
“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.
thecatholicspirit.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3983&Itemid=33

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.
 
Wealth, coupled with free will, has given us the opportunity to choose to be selfish. Secularism has repackaged and relabeled selfishness into the almost-desirable “independent individualism,” at the cost of True loving relationships for others, probably in the name of depopulation. Secularism, run by the unelected mainstream media who never “got” Catholicism’s message of sacrificial Love for spouse and kids, has successfully reduced many Europeans and Americans into simpletons who are searching for their next round of physical or chemical brain pleasurism. Once the shallow wonderlust of a new relationship wears off, the relationship dies, and people move on, leaving broken homes. It’s no wonder they don’t want to burden the kids with the same pain. What happened to handing one’s life over so that spouse and kids may live? If only people would just reduce their exposure to pop culture media, they will find it easier to find the incredible depth of being a good Catholic. There’s a small percentage of people remaining who know that this way works. The challenge is for these single people to find each other.
 
The mainstream media used to get Christianity just fine. It helped to explain life in terms Christians could agree with. In the past, Police Departments had Vice Squads. Bad behavior between individuals was looked down upon. We were encouraged to not associate with the ‘bad kids.’ Divorce was rare.

“Modern individualism, which is divorced from the moral foundations of Christianity and surrounded by a hedonistic society, has produced a way of life that is neither beneficial to individuals nor productive to society at large. Individualism used to be expressed positively within the context of the family, the community, the church, and the government. Personal rights were subjected to the overall good of society. But individualism today no longer observes such boundaries. The cry is, ‘I want what I want when I want it!’ Such selfish individualism weakens the very underpinnings of a nation built on strong moral foundations.”

Holiness and the Spirit of the Age, page 78.
Excerpt from Storm Warning by Billy Graham

God bless,
Ed
 
Perhaps it should begin within the Church first. secularization is growing due to great acceptance of secularism inside Church by bishops and priests.
 
Perhaps it should begin within the Church first. secularization is growing due to great acceptance of secularism inside Church by bishops and priests.
This is rare and diminishing. The outside world, not the Church, has covered all media in 24/7 S I N.

God bless,
Ed
 
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