the mission of evangelization today calls for a new program which can be defined overall as a “new evangelization”.(244) As the Church’s Supreme Pastor, I urgently desire to encourage all the members of God’s People, particularly those living in America—where I first appealed for a commitment “new in its ardor, methods and expression”(245)—to take up this project and to cooperate in carrying it out. In accepting this mission, everyone should keep in mind that the vital core of the new evangelization