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Pope Francis said the ministry is “urgently needed today” due to the necessity for “evangelization in the contemporary world and the rise of a globalized culture.”
By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, M
Edward Pentin began reporting on the Pope and the Vatican with Vatican Radio before moving on to become the Rome correspondent for the Register. …
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has instituted a lay ministry of catechist along with a rite of institution in response to an “urgent need today to bring the Gospel to the contemporary world.”
Making the announcement today in an apostolic letter issued motu proprio, Antiquum ministerium, the Pope said “recognition should be given to those lay men and women who feel called by virtue of their baptism to cooperate in the work of catechesis.”
Stressing the ancient importance of the catechist in the history of the Church, he said their role is “all the more urgently needed today as a result of our increasing awareness of the need for evangelization in the contemporary world and the rise of a globalized culture.” …
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