One example: Bishop David Ricken of Green Bay, Wis., has created a Department of New Evangelization, reported the diocesan paper The Compass Jan. 2.
"Today, because we are such a highly secularized culture, we have a growing population that has no understanding of who Christ is and what his essential message is," said Julianne Stanz, director of the new department.
Stanz is a consultant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, which Bishop Ricken chairs.
Said Stanz: "Bishop Ricken … sees that there are people hurting and lost and angry, and he wants to say, ‘Come home to us. We are not perfect, only Christ is, but we want to share with you his love.’"
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it seems to me there are as many callings from God as there are human beings. i advise all to tread lightly when placing expectations and limitations on how others should answer God’s calling. by all means, if you feel confused or unhappy in your current state of life, seek counsel from another catholic whose opinion,knowledge and holiness you respect. but in the end, we will all be judge by how we responded to God’s call. of course, unless we actively seek to know and understand God’s will for us our response should be open to questioning. but, on the other hand, who but God really knows the heart of a human being. i would point out that the catholic who is living a single life in accordance with the teachings of the church is more available to the needy than the married catholic who must put their spouse and family before the needy. the single person is also more available to evangelize the unchurched than is the vast majority of the ordained and members of religious orders whose responsibilites require to spend much if not most of their time serving the needs of the faithful. there is so much that can be said about answering God’s call that i would recommend we all tread lightly in criticizing the manner (unless of course it involves public sin) in which another appears to be responding to God. i am confident there are many soul’s in heaven who lived an unconsecrated single life.
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