In this episode we discuss current trends in Roman Catholic missiology in order to assess the impact of Vatican II theology on the modern-day Roman Catholic understanding of mission.

Mission in Roman Catholicism Post Vatican II 

• Ad gentes (1965) – Vatican II
• Evangelii nuntiandi (1975) – Pope Paul VI
• Redemptoris missio (1990) – Pope John Paul II
• Pontificio consiglio per la nuova evangelizzazione (2010) – Pope Benedict XVI
• Evangelii gaudium (2013) – Pope Francis 

Assessing Current trends in Roman Catholic missiology

• Mario Menin, Missione (2016)
• Mary Motte, ”Signs of a Future Transformation in Mission” (2019) 
• William P. Gregory,  “Pope Francis’s Effort to Revitalize Christian Mission” (2019)
• Dawn M. Nothwehr, ”For the Salvation of the Cosmos: The Church’s Mission of Ecojustice” (2019)

Vatican File 145: Mission. Did Pope Francis Say Mission?http://vaticanfiles.org/en/2018/01/145-mission-pope-francis-say-mission/

Support the show