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By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
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As of today, the Vatican officially has a brand new department dedicated to reawakening Christianity in the secular West. Whether this new “Pontifical Council for Promotion of the New Evangelization” will actually trigger a Christian renaissance across the First World, however, very much remains to be seen.
So far, the lone concrete project announced by the office is a celebration in 2012 of the twentieth anniversary of publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Pope Benedict XVI announced plans to create the new office, known in the technical parlance of the Vatican as a “dicastery,” on June 29, the liturgical feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. Only today, however, was the legal document formally creating the office published.
It came in the form of a *motu proprio*, meaning a document under the pope’s personal authority, titled in Latin *Ubicumque et semper,* “Everywhere and always.” It was presented in a Vatican briefing by the first president of the new council, Italian Archbishop Rino Fisichella.More…