The New Evangelization's Failure

Recently, The World Over host, Raymond Arroyo, interviewed Cardinal Wuerl about the Synod on the Family and asked the cardinal, in various ways, whether the Synod was changing the Church’s teaching on reception of communion by divorced and remarried Catholics. Cardinal Wuerl identified the Synod as a manifestation of the “New Evangelization.” “We’re seeing different approaches” to this and other issues he said, “but isn’t that what the whole New Evangelization is about?” In this essay, I argue that the Synod on the Family is only the most recent example of the New Evangelization’s failure, a failure to appropriately utilize the Church’s scarce resources to form the faithful, especially their children.