CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Pope Benedict has written two new directives modifying the departments in the Roman Curia which are responsible for catechesis and the formation of priests throughout the Church.<\/p>\n\tThe Pope gave the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization the task of \u201ccaring for\u2026the relevant instrument of evangelization that the Catechism, along with catechetical teaching in all its diverse forms, represents for the Church in order to bring about a more organic and effective pastoral outreach.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThis new pontifical council will be able to provide the local churches and the diocesan bishops an appropriate service in this area,\u201d he wrote Jan. 16 in the motu proprio \u201cFides per doctrinam,\u201d or \u201cFaith, by doctrine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tA motu proprio is a letter issued by the Pope \u201con his own initiative\u201d which typically makes minor changes to canon law. The two motu proprios signed Jan. 16 but released Jan. 25, modify Pope John Paul II's apostolic constitution \u201cPastor bonus,\u201d which reformed the Roman Curia.<\/p>\n
\tFormerly, the Congregation for the Clergy had been responsible for catechesis. Pope Benedict chose to transfer that responsibility to the new evangelization council because Vatican II and the subsequent Magisterium \u201chave connected the Catechism ever more closely to the process of evangelisation,\u201d he wrote in \u201cFides per doctrinam.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe Catechism, therefore, represents a significant step in the daily life of the Church, announcing and communicating the Word of God in a living and effective manner, so that it might reach all and that believers might be trained and educated in Christ to build his body, which is the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tHe wrote that \u201cfaith needs to be supported by doctrine that is capable of illuminating the minds and hearts of believers.\u201d There is currently a \u201cdramatic crisis of faith\u201d which \u201crequires an awareness that is able to respond to the high expectations that arise in the hearts of believers when facing the new questions that challenge the world and the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThis, therefore, intimately links catechesis and the new evangelization. \u201cUnderstanding faith\u2026always requires that its content be expressed in a new language, one capable of presenting the living hope of believers to those inquiring into its purpose,\u201d wrote Pope Benedict.<\/p>\n
\tHe said that while since Vatican II, catechesis has travelled a \u201clong path,\u201d though it has been one \u201cnot without errors, even grave ones, both in method and in content.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tPope Benedict referred to the publication of the Catechism, and the apostolic exhortations \u201cEvangelii nuntiandi\u201d and \u201cCatechesi tradendae\u201d of Paul VI and John Paul II as high points in the last 50 years of catechesis.<\/p>\n
\tIn giving his reasons for his decision, the Pope cited the Church's \u201cparticular task\u201d to \u201ckeep alive the effective proclamation of Christ, through the exposition of the doctrine which must faith in the mystery of the Incarnation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe\u00a0 Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization was established in 2010, and identifies and promotes ways of accomplishing the new evangelization. One of its tasks has been to \u201cpromote the use of the\u00a0Catechism of the Catholic Church\u00a0as an essential and complete formulation of the content of the faith for the people of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe Pope's second motu proprio released signed Jan. 16 and released Jan. 25 is \u201cMinistrorum institutio,\u201d or \u201cMinisters' formation.\u201d This document transfers responsibility for priestly formation and major seminaries from the Congregation for Catholic Education to the Congregation for the Clergy.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cI find it opportune,\u201d wrote Pope Benedict, to give responsibility to the congregation for clergy for \u201ceverything regarding the formation, the life, and the ministry of priests and deacons.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThis includes the \u201cpastoral care for vocations and the selection of candidates for Holy Orders, including their personal, spiritual, doctrinal, and pastoral formation in seminaries and in special centers for permanent deacon, and also their permanent formation, including living conditions and procedures for exercising their ministry and their welfare and social assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tPope Benedict's move reflects his and his predecessor's view that there is a close, and intrinsic, link between formation for the priesthood and ongoing formation following ordination.<\/p>\n
\tThe Congregation for Catholic Education will now be responsible for \u201cthe ordering of academic studies in philosophy and theology.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe Pontiff had previously announced his intention to make the changes which were made public today. At the conclusion of October's synod on the new evangelization, he stated his plan to reform the Curia's competences for catechesis and seminaries.<\/p>\n
\tBoth motu proprios will go into effect 15 days after they are promulgated in the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.<\/p>\n
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