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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI is creating a new Vatican office to fight
secularization and "re-evangelize" the West – a tacit acknowledgment that
his attempts to reinvigorate Christianity in Europe haven't succeeded and
need a new boost.
Benedict announced the new office during a vespers' service Monday,
confirming reports in the Italian media of a handful of new Vatican
appointments expected to be announced before the pope goes on summer
holiday and the Vatican bureaucracy slows down.
Benedict said parts of the world are still missionary territory, where the
Catholic Church is still relatively unknown. But in other parts of the world
like Europe, Christianity has existed for centuries yet "the process of
secularization has produced a serious crisis of the sense of the Christian
faith and role of the Church."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/pope-creating-new-vatican_n_629259.html
secularization and "re-evangelize" the West – a tacit acknowledgment that
his attempts to reinvigorate Christianity in Europe haven't succeeded and
need a new boost.
Benedict announced the new office during a vespers' service Monday,
confirming reports in the Italian media of a handful of new Vatican
appointments expected to be announced before the pope goes on summer
holiday and the Vatican bureaucracy slows down.
Benedict said parts of the world are still missionary territory, where the
Catholic Church is still relatively unknown. But in other parts of the world
like Europe, Christianity has existed for centuries yet "the process of
secularization has produced a serious crisis of the sense of the Christian
faith and role of the Church."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/pope-creating-new-vatican_n_629259.html