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Webpage for the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis

On these pages you will find an outline of the ongoing work in Evangelization, Catechesis, Stewardship, and World Mission of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. As successors of the Apostles, the committee continues the work of Evangelization and Catechesis through their episcopal ministry, their witness, and their service. 


“Go And Make Disciples: A National Plan And Strategy For Catholic Evangelization In The United States”

​In March 1990, the Committee on Evangelization of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) presented plans to develop a national plan and strategy for evangelization to the NCCB Administrative Committee. After conducting a broad consultation with dioceses, state Catholic conferences, religious communities, and national organizations, the Committee on Evangelization submitted a final draft to the plenary assembly of the NCCB. Go and Make Disciples: A National Plan and Strategy for Catholic Evangelization in the United States was approved on November 18, 1992, and was authorized for publication by the General Secretary. 
“Disciples Called to Witness the New Evangelization”

The Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis seeks to take up the call of the New Evangelization with this online resource. Diocesan bishops, eparchs, pastors, diocesan and parish staff, and indeed all Catholics will  find this resource helpful in the creation of outreach efforts aimed at inviting and welcoming Catholics back to the Lord’s Table. This resource discusses:
  • The call of the New Evangelization within our cultural context (Part I)
  • The theological foundations of the New Evangelization (Part II)
  • The importance of evangelization and personal conversion, or metanoia (Part III)
  • Ideas on how to create a “culture of witness” (Part IV)
  • Key Components of outreach programs for diocesan and parish-based evangelization programs (Part V)

Articles

One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church: I Believe, We Believe

In announcing the upcoming “Year of Faith,” which celebrates the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and the Twentieth Anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, our then-Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI explained that “to rediscover the content of faith that is professed, celebrated, lived and prayed and to reflect on the act of faith is a task every believer must make his own (Apostolic Letter Porta Fidei, 9, October 11, 2011).”  In this Pastoral letter from the beginning of the “Year of Faith,” the Diocese of Trenton joined with the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world in a period of reflection and celebration of our Catholic faith.   
"I believed, therefore I spoke"

A Pastoral Letter on the New Evangelization in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in which His Excellency  John C. Nienstedt "urge[s] every priest, every deacon, every religious, every member of the faithful, every mother and father, every young adult, every high school student ... to become part of the New Evangelization ... to convey the central importance of the work of evangelization in our life as a Church, and describe how parishes are to become truly evangelizing communities of faith, so that we might be equipped as Catholics to share the love of Jesus Christ and to invite others into the greatest drama of human life--the pilgrimage of faith. "
One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church: I Believe, We Believe

A Pastoral Letter of the Bishop of Trenton in which His Excellency David M. O'Connell, C.M. speaks to the preparation of his Diocese for the Year of Faith and the role of the Diocese of Trenton in the Universal Church. 
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