Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization

The Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization ( Latin : Pontificium Consilium de Nova Evangelizatione Promovenda ) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia with the mandate to strengthen the new evangelization , which was established on June 29, 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI. was announced.

Basic data
Surname:	Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization (Pontificium Consilium de Nova Evangelizatione Promovenda)
Seat:	Via della Conciliazione 5 00120 Città del Vaticano
President:	Archbishop Rino Fisichella (since 2010)
Secretary:	Archbishop José Octavio Ruiz Arenas (since 2011)
Delegate :	Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst (since December 2014)
Undersecretary:	Graham Bell (since 2011)

History and tasks

The Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization should take particular care of a renewed evangelization in those countries in which the Christian faith has been at home for a very long time, but has lost its importance as a result of advancing secularization . The former rector of the Lateran University and president of the Pontifical Academy for Life , Rino Fisichella , became the first president . With the Apostolic Letter Ubicumque et semper , Pope Benedict XVI. Established the Pontifical Council on September 21, 2010 and determined its tasks.

With the Motu Proprio Fides per doctrinam of January 16, 2013, responsibility for catechesis , for which the Congregation for the Clergy was previously responsible, was transferred to the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization. In the same letter, the corresponding new regulation in the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus was modified. With the Motu Proprio Sanctuarium in Ecclesia of April 1, 2017, responsibility for pilgrimages was also transferred to the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization.

Council members

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Members of the Council participate in the deliberations of the Council and attend plenary sessions in Rome once a year. They are appointed for 5 years, up to a maximum of their 80th birthday, and can be reappointed after their term of office.

• Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi (December 29, 2010–)
• Timothy Cardinal Dolan (January 5, 2011–)
• George Cardinal Pell (January 5, 2011–)
• Marc Cardinal Ouellet (January 5, 2011–)
• William Cardinal Levada (January 5, 2011–)
• André-Joseph Léonard (January 5, 2011–)
• Bernard Longley (January 5, 2011–)
• Christoph Cardinal Schönborn (January 5, 2011–)
• Angelo Cardinal Scola (January 5, 2011–)
• Josip Bozanić (January 5, 2011–)
• Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega (January 5, 2011–)
• Odilo Cardinal Scherer (January 5, 2011–)
• Stanisław Cardinal Ryłko (January 5, 2011–)
• Claudio Maria Celli (January 5, 2011–)
• Nikola Eterović (January 5, 2011–)
• Pierre-Marie Carré (January 5, 2011–)
• Robert Zollitsch (January 5, 2011–)
• Bruno Forte (January 5, 2011–)
• Adolfo González Montes (January 5, 2011–)
• Vincenzo Paglia (January 5, 2011–)

Web links

• Information on one side of the Vatican (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vatican: Benedict XVI. founds the Pontifical Council for the Renewed Evangelization , in: Vatican Radio, June 30, 2010
2. ^ Nomina del Presidente dell'annunciato Pontificio Consiglio per la promozione della nuova evangelizzazione , in: Holy See Press Office: Daily Bulletin of June 30, 2010.
3. ↑ Ubicumque et semper , Apostolic letter in the form of a Motu Proprio with which the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization is established by Pope Benedict XVI. dated September 21, 2010.
4. ↑ Fides per doctrinam (English translation), accessed May 16, 2017.
5. ^ Motu Proprio Sanctuarium in Ecclesia [1] , accessed June 8, 2017.