Speaker Says . . . Showing Christian Joy More Important Than Showing “Proof Texts”
By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — While there was “an explosion of usage of the term ‘evangelize’” in Vatican II documents, a prominent Catholic apologist told a Zoom meeting that people may ask, hasn’t that always been the Church’s mission?The answer is that the modern world is increasingly becoming more secular, intentionally, said Scott Hahn, Ph.D., a theologian at Ohio’s Franciscan University of Steubenville, who said the message of St. John Paul II was, “We need to re-evangelize the de-Christianized.”Hahn, who holds the Fr. Michael Scanlan, T.O.R., chair of Biblical Theology and the New Evangelization at the school, spoke from Steubenville on November 7 to the Zoom meeting conducted by the Institute of Catholic Theology, an evangelization program based at St.…Continue Reading