Question by Bruce: Is Pope Francis’s “new evangelization” the right course for the 21st-century Catholic Church?
Here, in a statement that then-cardinal Bergoglio had a significant hand in drafting, is what John Paul II and Benedict XVI have called the “New Evangelization” in synthetic microcosm:

The Church of the 21st century cannot rely on the ambient public culture, or on folk memories of traditional Catholic culture, to transmit the Gospel in a way that transforms individual lives, cultures, and societies. Something more, something deeper, is needed.

That “something” is radical personal conversion to the Lord Jesus Christ and an embrace of the friendship he offers every human being: a friendship in which we both see the face of the Father of Mercies (who calls us out of our prodigality into the full dignity of our humanity) and learn the deep truth about our humanity (that it is in making our lives into a gift for others, as life itself is to each of us, that we come into human fulfillment).

This conversion of minds and hearts builds a community that is unlike any other: a “communion” of disciples in mission, who understand that faith is increased as it is offered and given away to others.

That communion-community best embodies the truth of the human condition if each individual member of it, and the Church itself, fully embraces the entire symphony of Catholic truth, and in doing so, lives the moral life as a life of growth in beatitude, in compassion for others, and in evangelical charity.

Finally, this communion-community lives “ahead of time,” because it knows, through the Easter faith the Church will celebrate in a few weeks, the truth about how the human adventure will end: God’s purposes in creation and redemption will be vindicated, as history and the cosmos are fulfilled in the New Jerusalem, in the Wedding Feast of the Lamb, where death will be no more and every tear will be wiped away (Rev. 21:2–4).
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/342964/first-american-pope-george-weigel?pg=1

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Answer by SignPost
In Jewish literature a yoke represents the sum total of obligations which, according to the teaching of the rabbis, a person must take u pon himself….

because of the catholic church’s misinterpretation of the bible, the yoke which their teachers place upon the shoulders of the people is that of totally unwarranted legalism.

catholicism is a system of teaching that stresses salvation by means of strict obedience to a host of rules and regulations. A complete barrier to the true way of salvation. It shuts the door of salvation …….”shut.”

the catholic system of teaching stresses salvation by means of strict obedience to a host of rules and regulations, and all conversions within the catholic church are brought about by the prestige of rank and pomp, and not true conversions at all.

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