Pope Promotes ‘Ambitious and Audacious Efforts at Evangelization’

The Holy Father yesterday once again promoted evangelism, this time in very sanguine terms:

Pope Benedict XVI met on February 28 with bishops from El Salvador, who were concluding their ad limina visits to Rome. The Pontiff encouraged “ambitious and audacious efforts at evangelization” in the Central American country.

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“Man needs God, otherwise he remains without hope,” the Pope said. He asked the bishops to help their people “discover the spiritual richness of their Baptism.” Strong efforts at evangelization, he went on, will help the laity “to acquire a strong ecclesial sense of belonging and solid doctrinal formation, especially as concerns the Church’s social doctrine where they will find clear criteria and guidance to illuminate the society in which they live.”