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Ubicumque et semper: New Motu Proprio and new Vatican office

“It is the duty of the Church to proclaim always and everywhere the Gospel of Jesus Christ…”, thus begins the recently-released Apostolic Letter by which Pope Benedict XVI has established the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation.

The Motu proprio outlines the new office’s objectives:

• To deepen the theological and pastoral meaning of the new evangelization.
• To promote and foster in close collaboration with bishops’ conferences, teaching of the Magisterium relative to the new evangelization.
• To make known initiatives already under way in local churches and promote new initiatives, involving also resources of religious institutes and groups of the faithful and new lay communities;
• To study and foster the use of modern means of communications as instruments for the new evangelization.
• To promote the use of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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Here’s the video showing Archbishop Rino Fisichella being named as the first president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization: