No better time than the present. Pope appoints Archbishop Fisichella to lead Council for New Evangelization {Hot Air}
Vatican City, Jun 30, 2010 / 11:19 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Among a flurry of announcements from the Holy See on Wednesday, the Holy Father officially nominated the current head of the Pontifical Academy for Life to lead the recently announced Pontifical Council for New Evangelization. Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella will lead the Church in the formidable challenge of re-evangelizing the “secularized” countries of the world. …
The plan to create the Pontifical Council for New Evangelization Archbishop Fisichella will be heading was announced by Pope Benedict from the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-walls in Rome on Monday during the celebration of First Vespers for the eve of the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The council will aim to address the “progressive secularization” of historically Christian areas of the world.
The Pope said then that it will have “the important task of promoting a renewed evangelization in countries where the first announcement of the faith has already resounded and Churches of ancient foundation are present, but are living (through) a progressive secularization of society and a sort of ‘eclipse of the sense of God’.”
Heaven knows that such action is long, long overdue. One can only hope that we are not yet too far gone. A time to lean on faith indeed.
