The New Evangelization is, I believe, the most important teaching to come out of Vatican II. Vatican II was not about compromising with modernism, as some radical traditionalists in the Church like to pretend. It was about engaging modernism. One cannot engage this wicked culture from afar; the culture is not going to come to us. We must go to it. We must meet people where they are. That is what the Church is telling Catholics that they must do now. We all have a responsibility to the faith we profess. If we believe it, we must know it and live it.
The Church is a community of disciples in mission.
BY: Henry Matthew Alt • October 29, 2013 • Church History