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Footnotes

1. Cf. Paul VI, Message for World Mission Day, 1972, Insegnamenti X, (1972), 522: "How many internal tensions, which weaken and divide certain local churches and institutions, would disappear before the firm conviction that the salvation of local communities is procured through cooperation in work for the spread of the Gospel to the farthest bounds of the earth!"

2. Cf. Benedict XV, Apostolic Letter Maximum Illud (November 30, 1919): AAS 11 (1919), 440-455; Pius XI, Encyclical Letter Rerum Ecclesiae (February 28, 1926): AAS 18 (1926), 65-83; Pius XII, Encyclical Letter Evangelii Praecones (June 2, 1951): AAS 43 (1951), 497-528; Encyclical Letter Fidei Donum (April 21, 1957): AAS 49 (1957), 225-248; John XXIII, Encyclical Letter Princeps Pastorum (November 28, 1959): AAS 51 (1959), 833-864.

3. Encyclical Letter Redemptor Hominis (March 4, 1979), 10: AAS 71 (1979), 274f.

4. Ibid.: loc. cit., 275.

5. Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed: DS 150.

6. Encyclical Letter Redemptor Hominis, 13: loc. cit., 283.

7. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 2.

8. Ibid., 22.

9. Encyclical Letter Dives in Misericordia (November 30, 1980), 7: AAS 72 (1980), 1202.

10. Homily for the celebration of the Eucharist in Krakow, June 10, 1979: AAS 71 (1979), 873.

11. Cf. John XXIII, Encyclical Letter Mater et Magistra (May 15, 1961) IV AAS 53 (1961), 453.

12. Declaration on Religious Freedom Dignitatis Humanae, 2.

13. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi (December 8, 1975), 53: AAS 68 (1976), 42.

14. Declaration on Religious Freedom Dignitatis Humanae, 2.

15. Cf. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 14-17; Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 3.

16. Cf. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 48; Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 43; Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 7, 21.

17. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 13.

18. Ibid., 9.

19. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 22.

20. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, 14.

21. Encyclical Letter Dives in Misericordia, 1: loc. cit., 1177.

22. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 5.

23. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 22.

24. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 4.

25. Ibid., 5.

26. Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 16: loc. cit., 15.

27. Address at the opening of the Third Session of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, September 14, 1964: AAS 56 (1964), 810.

28. Cf. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 34: loc. cit., 28.

29. Cf. International Theological Commission, Select Themes of Ecclesiology on the Occasion of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Closing of the Second Vatican Council (October 7, 1985), 10: "The Eschatological Character of the Church: Kingdom and Church."

30. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 39.

31. Encyclical Letter Dominum et Vivificantem (May 18, 1986), 42: AAS 78 (1986), 857.

32. Ibid., 64: loc. cit., 892.

33. The Greek word "parrhesia" also means enthusiasm or energy; cf. Acts 2:29; 4:13, 29, 31; 9:27-28; 13:46; 14:3; 18:26; 19:8, 26; 28:31.

34. Cf. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 41-42: loc. cit., 31-33.

35. Cf. Encyclical Letter Dominum et Vivificantem, 53: loc. cit. , 874f.

36. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 3, 11, 15; Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 10-11, 22, 26, 38, 41, 92-93.

37. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 10, 15, 22.

38. Ibid., 41.

39. Cf. Encyclical Letter Dominum et Vivificantem, 54: loc. cit., 875f.

40. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 26.

41. Ibid., 38; cf. 93.

42. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 17; Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 3, 15.

43. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 4.

44. Cf. Encyclical Letter Dominum et Vivificantem, 53: loc. cit. , 874.

45. Address to Representatives of Non-Christian Religions, Madras, February 5, 1986: AAS 78 (1986), 767; cf. Message to the Peoples of Asia, Manila, February 21, 1981, 2-4: AAS 73 (1981), 392f; Address to Representatives of Other Religions, Tokyo, February 24, 1981, 3-4: Insegnamenti IV/I (1981), 507f.

46. Address to Cardinals and the Roman Curia, December 22, 1986, 11: AAS 79 (1987), 1089.

47. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 16.

48. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 45; cf. Encyclical Letter Dominum et Vivificantem, 54: loc. cit. , 876.

49. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 10.

50. Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici (December 30, 1988), 35: AAS 81 (1989), 457.

51. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 6.

52. Cf. ibid.

53. Cf. ibid., 6, 23, 27.

54. Cf. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 18-20: loc. cit. , 17-19.

55. Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici, 35: loc. cit., 457.

56. Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 80: loc. cit., 73.

57. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 6.

58. Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 80: loc. cit., 73.

59. Cf. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 6.

60. Cf. ibid, 20.

61. Cf. Address to the members of the Symposium of the Council of the European Episcopal Conferences, October 11, 1985: AAS 78 (1986), 178-189.

62. Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 20: loc. cit., 19.

63. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 5; cf. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 8.

64. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Declaration on Religious Freedom Dignitatis Humanae, 3-4; Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 79-80: loc. cit., 71-75; John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Redemptor Hominis, 12: loc. cit., 278-281.

65. Apostolic Letter Maximum Illud: loc. cit., 446.

66. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 62: loc. cit., 52. 67. Cf. De praescriptione haereticorum, XX: CCL, I, 201f.

68. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 9; cf. Chapter II, 10-18.

69. Cf. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 41: loc. cit., 31 f.

70. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 28, 35, 38; Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 43; Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 11-12.

71. Cf. Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio (March 26, 1967), 21, 42: AAS 59 (1967), 267f, 278.

72. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 27: loc. cit., 23.

73. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 13.

74. Cf. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 15: loc. cit., 13-15; Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 13-14.

75. Cf. Encyclical Letter Dominum et Vivificantem, 42, 64: loc. cit., 857-859, 892-894.

76. Cf. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 60: loc. cit., 50f.

77. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 6-9.

78. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 2; cf. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 9.

79. Cf. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, Chapter III, 19-22.

80. Ibid., 15.

81. Ibid., 6.

82. Ibid., 15; cf. Decree on Ecumenism Unitatis Redintegratio, 3.

83. Cf. Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 58: loc. cit., 46-49.

84. Extraordinary Assembly of 1985, Final Report, II, C, 6.

85. Ibid., II, D, 4.

86. Cf. Apostolic Exhortation Catechesi Tradendae (October 16, 1979), 53: AAS 71 (1979), 1320; Encyclical Epistle Slavorum Apostoli (June 2, 1985), 21: AAS 77 (1985), 802f.

87. Cf. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 20: loc. cit., 18f.

88. Address to the Bishops of Zaire, Kinshasa, May 3, 1980, 4-6: AAS 72 (1980), 432-435; Address to the Bishops of Kenya, Nairobi, May 7, 1980, 6: AAS 72 (1980), 497; Address to the Bishops of India, Delhi, February 1, 1986, 5: AAS 78 (1986), 748f; Homily at Cartagena, July 6, 1986, 7-8: AAS 79 (1987), 105f; cf. also Encyclical Epistle Slavorum Apostoli, 21-22; loc. cit., 802-804.

89. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 22.

90. Cf. ibid.

91. Cf. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 64: loc. cit., 55.

92. Ibid., 63: loc. cit., 53: Particular Churches "have the task of assimilating the essence of the Gospel message and of transposing it, without the slightest betrayal of its essential truth, into the language that these people understand, then of proclaiming it in this language.... And the word ‘language' should be understood here less in the semantic or literary sense than in the sense which one may call anthropological or cultural."

93. Cf. Address at the General Audience of April 13, 1988: Insegnamenti XI/I (1988), 877-881.

94. Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio, (November 22, 1981), 10: AAS 74 (1982), 91, which speaks of inculturation "in the context of marriage and the family."

95. Cf. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 63-65: loc. cit., 53-56.

96. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 17.

97. Address to those participating in the Symposium of African Bishops at Kampala, July 31, 1969, 2: AAS 61 (1969), 577.

98. Paul VI, Address at the opening of the Second Session of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, September 29, 1963: AAS 55 (1963), 858; cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Declaration on the Church's Relation to Non-Christian Religions Nostra Aetate, 2; Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 16; Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 9; Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 53: loc. cit. 41f.

99. Cf. Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Ecclesiam Suam (August 6, 1964): AAS 56 (1964), 609-659; Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 11, 41; Secretariat for Non-Christians, Document L'atteggiamento della Chiesa di fronte ai seguaci di altre religioni: Riflessioni e orientamenti su dialogo e missione (September 4, 1984): AAS 76 (1984), 816-828.

100. Letter to the Fifth Plenary Assembly of Asian Bishops' Conferences (June 23, 1990), 4: L'Osservatore Romano, July 18, 1990.

101. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 14; cf. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 7.

102. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on Ecumenism Unitatis Redintegratio, 3; Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 7.

103. Cf. Encyclical Letter Redemptor Hominis, 12: loc. cit., 279.

104. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 11, 15 .

105. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Declaration on the Church's Relation to Non-Christian Religions Nostra Aetate, 2.

106. Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici, 35: loc. cit., 458.

107. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 41.

108. Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (December 30, 1987), 41: AAS 80 (1988), 570f.

109. Documents of the Third General Conference of Latin American Bishops, Puebla (1979), 3760 (1145).

110. Address to Clergy and Religious, Jakarta, October 10, 1989, 5: L'Osservatore Romano, October 11, 1989.

111. Cf. Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 14-21, 40-42: loc. cit., 264-268, 277f; John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 27-41: loc. cit., 547-572.

112. Cf. Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 28: loc. cit., 548-550.

113. Cf. ibid. , Chapter IV, 27-34: loc. cit., 547-560; Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 19-21, 41-42: loc. cit., 266-268, 277f.

114. Address to the residents of "Favela Vidigal" in Rio de Janeiro, July 2, 1980, 4: AAS 72 (1980), 854.

115. Documents of the Third General Conference of Latin American Bishops, Puebla, (1979), 3757 (1142).

116. Isaac of Stella, Sermon 31, PL 194, 1793.

117. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 20.

118. Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici, 35: loc. cit., 458.

119. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 38.

120. Address to Cardinals and those associated in the work of the Roman Curia, Vatican City and the Vicariate of Rome, June 28, 1980, 10: Insegnamenti, III/1 (1980), 1887.

121. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 23.

122. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 38.

123. Ibid., 29.

124. Cf. ibid., 38.

125. Ibid., 30.

126. Documents of the Third General Conference of Latin American Bishops, Puebla (1979): 2941 (368).

127. Cf. Norms for the Cooperation of the Local Churches Among Themselves and especially for a Better Distribution of the Clergy in the World Postquam Apostoli (March 25, 1980): AAS 72 (1980), 343-364.

128. Cf. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, Chapter IV, 23-27.

129. Ibid., 23.

130. Ibid.

131. Ibid., 23, 27.

132. Cf. Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes and Sacred Congregation for Bishops, Directives for Mutual Relations between Bishops and Religious in the Church Mutuae Relationes (May 14, 1978), 14b: AAS 70 (1978), 482; cf. n. 28: loc. cit., 490.

133. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 27.

134. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests Presbyterorum Ordinis, 10; cf. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 39.

135. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on Priestly Formation Optatam Totius, 20: cf. "Guide de la vie pastorale pour les pretres diocesains des Eglises qui dependent de la Congregation pour l'Evangélisation des Peuples," Rome, 1989.

136. Address to the Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, April 14, 1989, 4: AAS 81 (1989), 1140.

137. Message for World Mission Day, 1982: Insegnamenti V/2 (1982), 1879.

138. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 38; Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, Norms Postquam Apostoli, 24-25: loc. cit., 361.

139. Cf. Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, Norms Postquam Apostoli, 29: loc. cit., 362f; Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 20.

140. CIC, c. 783.

141. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 40.

142. Cf. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 69: loc. cit., 58f.

143. Apostolic Letter Mulieris Dignitatem (August 15, 1988), 20: AAS 80 (1988), 1703.

144. Cf. Pius XII, Encyclical Letter Evangelii Praecones: loc. cit., 510ff; Encyclical Letter Fidei Donum: loc. cit., 228ff; John XXIII, Encyclical Letter Princeps Pastorum: loc. cit., 855ff; Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 70-73: loc. cit., 59-63.

145. Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici, 35: loc. cit., 457. 146. Cf. Encyclical Letter Evangelii Praecones: loc. cit., 510-514.

147. Cf. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 17, 33ff.

148. Cf. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 35-36, 41.

149. Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici, 14: loc. cit., 410.

150. CIC, c. 225, 1; cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity Apostolicam Actuositatem, 6, 13.

151. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 31; cf. CIC, c. 225, 2.

152. Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, 70: loc. cit., 60.

153. Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici, 35: loc. cit., 458.

154. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 17.

155. Apostolic Exhortation Catechesi Tradendae, 66: loc. cit., 1331.

156. Cf. c. 785, 1.

157. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 17.

158. Cf. Plenary Assembly of the Sacred Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, 1969, on catechists, and the related "Instruction" of April 1970: Bibliographia Missionaria 34 (1970), 197-212 and S. C. de Propaganda Fide Memoria Rerum, III/2 (1976), 821-831.

159. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 28.

160. Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus (June 28, 1988), 85: AAS 80 (1988), 881; cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 29.

161. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 29: Cf. John Paul II, Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus, 86: loc. cit., 882.

162. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 31.

163. Cf. ibid., 33.

164. Cf. Paul VI, Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio Ecclesiae Sanctae (August 6, 1966), II, 43: AAS 58 (1966), 782.

165. Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 34; Paul VI, Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio Ecclesiae Sanctae, III, 22: loc. cit., 787.

166. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 35; cf. CIC, cc. 211, 781.

167. Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio, 54: loc. cit., 147.

168. Cf. Paul VI, Apostolic Epistle Graves et Increscentes (September 5, 1966): AAS 58 (1966), 750-756.

169. P Manna, Le nostre "Chiese" e la propagazione del vangelo, Trentola Ducenta, 1952², p. 35.

170. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 38.

171. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 13.

172. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad gentes, 24.

173. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests Presbyterorum Ordinis, 14.

174. Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici, 17: loc. cit., 419. 175. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 1.

176. Cf. Address at CELAM Meeting, Port-au-Prince, March 9, 1983: AAS 75 (1983), 771-779; Homily for the Opening of the "Novena of Years" promoted by CELAM, Santo Domingo, October 12, 1984: Insegnamenti VII/2 (1984), 885-897.

177. Encyclical Letter Redemptoris Mater (March 25, 1987), 2: AAS 79 (1987), 362f.

178. Ibid., 22: loc. cit., 390.