INTERNATIONAL VATICAN CONGRESS ON CATECHESIS TO BE CELEBRATED

VATICAN CITY, OCT 5, 2002 (VIS) - From October 8 to 11, an International Congress on Catechesis, organized by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Congregation for Clergy, will be celebrated in the New Synod Hall in the Vatican.

According to a communique published today by both congregations, the congress marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the fifth anniversary of the publication of the General Directory for Catechesis.

Among those invited are the editors of both documents, presidents of the commissions for the Doctrine of the Faith and the catechesis of the Episcopal Conferences, and directors of the National Offices of Catechesis.

"The Congress," says the communique, "will reflect on ... the today and the tomorrow of evangelization and catechesis in the world, delineating ... the many problems ... that afflict Christian communities at the beginning of the third millennium."

"There is no doubt that the phenomenon of secularism, ambiguous fascination with the New Age and sects, the syncretist appropriation of the faith, religious and cultural pluralism, poverty, the loss of human rights, including the loss of religious freedom, are serious challenges for the unity and oneness ... of the proclamation of the Gospel message."

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