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Vatican City, Oct 8, 2012 \/ 10:42 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The 2012 Synod of Bishops on evangelization began its second day with a call for the Catholic Church to roll back the \u201ctsunami of secularism\u201d that has swept over modern society in recent decades.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIt is almost as if this tsunami, this wave has washed across everything we lived by and simply took most of it away,\u201d Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. told CNA on Oct 8.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe have experienced, I believe, in recent decades such a movement of secular hegemony that sees the horizons of life limited to the secular world that doesn\u2019t see a role for faith, for the belief that we are all created in the image and likeness of God, that there is a moral order that is objective and that we cannot change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe 71-year-old American cardinal is charged by Pope Benedict XVI with steering the work of the synod.\u00a0 Under the title of General Relator, Cardinal Wuerl is tasked with guiding the discussions of the 262 participants as they attempt to map out a plan for bringing the Gospel to the modern world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tHis role also involved presenting the opening report on the first day of the Synod.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWhat the new evangelization is all about is calling us back to appreciate all over again the person of Jesus Christ, the truth of his Gospel and what that means to the world,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tIt has also been part of Cardinal Wuerl\u2019s job to undertake 12 months of preparation for the Oct. 7-28 meeting in Rome. The process helped reinforce his view that the Church has to give particular help to the \u201ctwo generations of people who were under-catechized.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cOne of the problems we faced in the Church in the United States following the Council was a whole period, two decades, the 70s and 80s particularly, when there was a lot of experimentation with catechetical material,\u201d Cardinal Wuerl remarked.<\/p>\n

\tThe result of that experimentation was that some of the classes failed to provide \u201cthe foundational understanding of something even as simple as the Creed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe believes a significant turning point was the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Blessed Pope John Paul II in 1992.\u00a0 The synod falls on its 30th anniversary.<\/p>\n

\tCardinal Wuerl thinks that the upturn in orthodox catechesis has resulted in the new evangelization resonating with a new generation.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cOne of the encouraging elements that we are finding in the preparation of this synod, and certainly in my own experience as a bishop, is that there is a whole generation of youngsters who are at high school, colleges and universities who are looking for answers, answers that are found in the Gospel.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tHe pointed to the opening of a new seminary in his diocese last year as evidence of this new momentum, as well as the flourishing of campus ministry at Washington D.C.\u2019s universities.<\/p>\n

\tLooking ahead to the synod\u2019s discussions, Cardinal Wuerl wants the Synod Fathers to share their experiences of \u201cwhat is working\u201d in their own territories, which he believes will lead to \u201ca fresh confidence in the truth of the Faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

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