Vatican City, Feb 18, 2011 / 11:54 am
The head of the new Vatican office in charge of the “new evangelization,” said he is encouraged by the support he has received from local churches around the world.
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the newly minted Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, spoke about his plans a press conference Feb. 17. The conference marked the Vatican’s release of a book documenting the Church’s celebrations of the Year of St. Paul, which closed June 28, 2009.
Archbishop Fisichella said the new council is working to establish its scope in collaboration with many international institutions and associations already in place in the world.
When Pope Benedict XVI announced the new council’s creation last June, he asked the council to address the “progressive secularization” of historically Christian areas of the world.