Schuelerkreis will discuss
'new evangelization' in 2011
VATICAN CITY, Nov. 28 (Translated from ASCA) - The ex-students of Prof. Joseph Ratzinger, the so-called Schuelerkreis, who have been meeting every summer since 2005 in Castel Gandolfo, to discuss a theological subject with the Pope, will address 'new evangelization' in 2011.
Papa Ratzinger recently instituted the Pontifical Council for New Evangelization headed by Mons. Rino Fisichella, and in the interview-book
Light of the World, he underscores several times the need for a rediscovery of Christian roots in the lands that had been evangelized early but are now secularized, as in Europe.
Fr. Stephan Horn, president of the Schuelerkreis, said at the presentation of the new Fondazione Vaticana Joseph Ratzinger - Benedetto XVI, said that one of the resource persons to address the Schuelerkreis seminar would be a female theologian from East Germany who would speak about the situation in an area that has been profoundly secularized.
The topic for each year's seminar is chosen by the Pope himself from a short list suggested by his ex-students.