New Document on Evangelization and Catechesis
This sounds fabulous
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Vatican City, Dec 6, 2007 / 05:17 pm (CNA).- The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), headed by Cardinal William Joseph Levada, is about to release an important document on evangelization and catechesis, Vatican sources told CNA this week.
According to the Vatican sources, the document, which could be made public this Advent, “can be regarded as an application of the principles of the document “Dominus Iesus” to the way evangelization is transmitted and catechesis is taught within the Catholic Church.”
According to sources consulted by CNA, the new document on evangelization will stress the need to make the person of Jesus Christ, in his role as God incarnated to bring the full revelation of God’s plans through the Catholic Church, the corner stone and center of every program of evangelization and catechesis.
The intention of the document, according to the source, is “to bring back the centrality of Jesus to the programs aimed at transmitting the faith to future generations, since several of these programs are centered on feelings or confused ideas about the teachings of the Church on the nature of Jesus.”
This will be one of my Christmas reads for sure.
posted by Sherry W @ 7:39 AM
7 Comments
7 Comments:
Evangelization? I thought the correct word that all truly educated Catholics used was "missionization"! Sounds like more in your face Protestant preachiness from a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed fifth columnist who doesn't understand True Catholic Faith[TM] and is bent on turning the Church into his personal domain of Evangelicalism.
Proclaiming the kerygma is very much what the theme of the catechetical year has been, as promulgated by the USCCB. The theme is "Encountering the Living Christ," we had some good materials that point to the person of Christ, but I lack the time to put all of them to use as DRE in my parish. We all know what the message is, but we Catholics are a little rusty in its proclamation in every day life.
--Alisa
If guess that would make JP2 & B16 not trully educated Catholics, huh?
Bobby
2 Tim 2:14
BTW, if "true Catholic" implies what I think it does, then the first commenter would likely deny that JP2 and B16 (was)is a Pope.
While waiting for this doc, you might enjoy (re-)reading this talk from two years ago by Fr Cantalamessa.
~Walt B
Something from Pope Benedict about evangelization, catechesis, and putting Jesus back in the center of both? Hooray! Thanks for the happy news!
Ed:
My comment was tongue in cheek. I'm poking fun at the stunning bigotry of the oft-banned-from-this-blog commentary of Janice Kraus, who styles herself an authority on the Menace of Protestants and the Problem of Protestant Converts.
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