Quite possibly the most succinct, poignant definition of the new evangelization I have ever heard:
"What's new about the new evangelization? I'll tell you what's new about it. It's intended for the baptized. In other words, we're not targeting the pagans with the new evangelization. We're talking about those who have actually been baptized and confirmed and perhaps married in the Church. That's what John Paul II had in mind with the new evangelization. Doesn't it occur to anybody that that is an extraordinary admission by a pope? That that vast number of those who claim to be Catholic are themselves sacramentalized but not evangelized?" -- Al Kresta on "Kresta in the Afternoon" on October 21, 2013
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