“Recent decades have seen the advance of a spiritual desertification,” [Pope Benedict] said, opening a worldwide “Year of Faith”. “We see it all around us … the void has spread.”
The Vatican has termed this effort the “new evangelisation” of the developed world and it has asked Catholics, particularly those who have left the Church, to look deep into their hearts and either rekindle their relationship with God or deepen it.
Actually, maybe not.
Pope Warns Lapsed Catholics Of “Spiritual Desertification” (Reuters)
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