CDF to release important document on Evangelization and Catechesis
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Cardinal William Levada

Vatican City, Dec 6, 2007 / 05:17 pm (CNA).- The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), headed by Cardinal William Joseph Levada, is about to release an important document on evangelization and catechesis, Vatican sources told CNA this week.

According to the Vatican sources, the document, which could be made public this Advent, “can be regarded as an application of the principles of the document “Dominus Iesus” to the way evangelization is transmitted and catechesis is taught within the Catholic Church.”

In “Dominus Iesus” the CDF, then under the leadership of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, clearly established the differences between the Catholic Church and other religions including other Christian denominations. “Dominus Iesus” states that only the Catholic Church possesses the fullness of the Christian faith. 
 
According to sources consulted by CNA, the new document on evangelization will stress the need to make the person of Jesus Christ, in his role as God incarnated to bring the full revelation of God’s plans through the Catholic Church, the corner stone and center of every program of evangelization and catechesis.

The intention of the document, according to the source, is “to bring back the centrality of Jesus to the programs aimed at transmitting the faith to future generations, since several of these programs are centered on feelings or confused ideas about the teachings of the Church on the nature of Jesus.”

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Published by: Idahosa Amadasu
Nigeria 06/08/2008 04:35 PM EST
The reaffirmation of CDF is needed at a time of so much confusion. I think critical appreciation, does not only consist in dissidence, but it can also be made in seeing how to translate these documents concretely.
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Published by: Agbaw Ebai
Nairobi 12/10/2007 10:38 AM EST
kudos CDF. We need such a clarification to counter the so-called compromises around the person of Christ in the name of religious pluralism. Either God has entered human history definitely in CHrist or he hasnt. There is no middle ground. In the middle stands the devil. Pluralism, there must be, but it does not mean we as christians should degenerate into relativism because we want to please others! that will be betraying the Gospel.Blessings.
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