Implications of the New Evangelization for Priestly Ministry and for Teaching Scripture to Seminarians

Although the New Evangelization has its roots in Vatican II’s aim to proclaim the gospel to the modern world, and in Paul VI’s evangelii nutiandi, it really began in 1983, when Pope John Paul II started calling for a “new evangelization,” new not in content, but in ardor, methods, and expression.¹ His intention became clearer in Redemptoris missio (1990): I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization and to the mission ad gentes. No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ