What's the best way for the Church to evangelize? Pope Francis addressed this very issue with the \u00a0Pontifical Mission Society, which held its Annual General Assembly in Rome.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cardinal Fernando Filoni, who serves as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples talked about their mission and how it all started.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CARD. FERNANDO FILONI
\nPrefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
\n'The Pontifical Mission Societies comes from the heart of a French lay woman, the venerable Pauline Marie Jaricot, in Lyon in the year 1817. She was a young worker who wanted to participate in the missionary work of the Church from her own job.\u00e2?\u009d \u00a0<\/p>\n
The Societies evangelize in places where the Catholic Church is new young, poor or unstable. The Pope explained that a renewed Church is needed to evangelize properly.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS
\n'In this time of great social change, evangelization requires a thoroughly outgoing missionary Church, capable of discernment in order to engage with different cultures and visions of people. For a changing world we need a Church renewed and transformed by contemplation and personal contact with Christ.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n
The Church, explained the Pope, is by nature a missionary Church, a home for the poor, excluded and persecuted. He described it as a home that gives shelter to everyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In addition to thanking them for spreading the Gospel, he asked them to raise awareness, at a local level, about the missionary work that's needed in the Church.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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