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The New Evangelization
What It Is and How It Affects the Life of Every Catholic
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The new evangelization does not consist of a “new gospel.” … Neither does it involve removing from the Gospel whatever seems difficult for the modern mentality to accept. … The new evangelization has as its point of departure the certitude that in Christ there are “inexhaustible riches” (Eph 3:8) which no culture nor era can exhaust. … These riches are, first of all, Christ himself, his person, because he himself is our salvation.4
He distinguished “primary evangelization” directed toward those who have never heard the Gospel before, “pastoral care” directed toward those who were living as believers, and “new evangelization or re-evangelization” directed toward those from traditionally Christian cultures or backgrounds “where entire groups of the baptized have lost a living sense of the faith, or even no longer consider themselves members of the Church, and live a life far removed from Christ and his Gospel” (RM, 33). To state it in a simple way, what’s primarily new about the “new evangelization” is whom it is directed toward, the baptized who are not living in an active relationship of discipleship with Jesus. It is also “new” in the passion and enthusiasm that Blessed John Paul II has stated is essential for its success, along with an openness to the Holy Spirit to show us new methods and expressions of the faith that can communicate with people today. “Finally, what’s ‘new’ about the ‘new evangelization’ is that it is not only the responsibility of priests, nuns, or full time Church employees but of every single Catholic, by virtue of being baptized into the life and mission of Jesus.”5
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