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. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Redemptor Hominis (March 4, 1979), 10: AAS 71 (1979), 274–275.
4. Ibid.: loc. cit., 275.
5. Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed: DS 150.
6. 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. John Paul II, 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. 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. Lumen Gentium, 48; Gaudium et Spes, 43; Ad Gentes, 7, 21.
17. Lumen Gentium, 13.
18. Ibid., 9.
19. Gaudium et Spes, 22.
20. Lumen Gentium, 14.
21. Dives in Misericordia, 1: loc. cit., 1177.
22. Lumen Gentium, 5.
23. Cf. Gaudium et Spes, 22.
24. Cf. Lumen Gentium, 4.
25. Ibid., 5.
26. 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. 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. Gaudium et Spes, 39.
31. John Paul II, 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. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 41–42: loc. cit., 31–33.
35. Cf. Dominum et Vivificantem, 53: loc. cit. , 874f.
36. Cf. Ad Gentes, 3, 11, 15; Gaudium et Spes, 10–11, 22, 26, 38, 41, 92–93.
37. Gaudium et Spes, 10, 15, 22.
38. Ibid., 41.
39. Cf. Dominum et Vivificantem, 54: loc. cit., 875f.
40. Gaudium et Spes, 26.
41. Ibid., 38; cf. 93.
42. Cf. Lumen Gentium, 17; Ad Gentes, 3, 15.
43. Ad Gentes, 4.
44. Cf. Dominum et Vivificantem, 53: loc. cit. , 874.
45. John Paul II, 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. John Paul II, Address to Cardinals and the Roman Curia, December 22, 1986, 11: AAS 79 (1987), 1089.
47. Cf. Lumen Gentium, 16.
48. Gaudium et Spes, 45; cf. Dominum et Vivificantem, 54: loc. cit. , 876.
49. Ad Gentes, 10.
50. John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici (December 30, 1988), 35: AAS 81 (1989), 457.
51. Cf. Ad Gentes, 6.
52. Cf. ibid.
53. Cf. ibid., 6, 23, 27.
54. Cf. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 18–20: loc. cit. , 17–19.
55. Christifideles Laici, 35: loc. cit., 457.
56. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 80: loc. cit., 73.
57. Cf. Ad Gentes, 6.
58. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 80: loc. cit., 73.
59. Cf. Ad Gentes, 6.
60. Cf. ibid, 20.
61. Cf. John Paul II, Address to the members of the Symposium of the Council of the European Episcopal Conferences, October 11, 1985: AAS 78 (1986), 178–189.
62. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 20: loc. cit., 19.
63. Ad Gentes, 5; cf. Lumen Gentium, 8.
64. Cf. Dignitatis Humanae, 3–4; Evangelii Nuntiandi, 79–80: loc. cit., 71–75; Redemptor Hominis, 12: loc. cit., 278–281.
65. Benedict XV, Apostolic Letter Maximum Illud: loc. cit., 446.
66. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 62: loc. cit., 52.
67. Cf. Tertullian, De praescriptione haereticorum, XX: CCL, I, 201f.
68. Ad Gentes, 9; cf. Chapter II, 10–18.
69. Cf. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 41: loc. cit., 31f.
70. Cf. Lumen Gentium, 28, 35, 38; Gaudium et Spes, 43; Ad Gentes, 11–12.
71. Cf. Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio (March 26, 1967), 21, 42: AAS 59 (1967), 267f., 278.
72. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 27: loc. cit., 23.
73. Ad Gentes, 13.
74. Cf. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 15: loc. cit., 13–15; Ad Gentes, 13–14.
75. Cf. Dominum et Vivificantem, 42, 64: loc. cit., 857–859, 892–894.
76. Cf. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 60: loc. cit., 50f.
77. Cf. Lumen Gentium, 6–9.
78. Ad Gentes, 2; cf. Lumen Gentium, 9.
79. Cf. Ad Gentes, Chapter III, 19–22.
80. Ibid., 15.
81. Ibid., 6.
82. Ibid., 15; cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on Ecumenism Unitatis Redintegratio, 3.
83. Cf. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 58: loc. cit., 46–49.
84. Extraordinary Assembly of 1985, Final Report, II, C, 6.
85. Ibid., II, D, 4.
86. Cf. John Paul II, 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. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 20: loc. cit., 18f.
88. John Paul II, 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 Slavorum Apostoli, 21–22; loc. cit., 802–804.
89. Cf. Ad Gentes, 22.
90. Cf. ibid.
91. Cf. 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. John Paul II, Address at the General Audience of April 13, 1988: Insegnamenti XI/I (1988), 877–881.
94. John Paul II, 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. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 63–65: loc. cit., 53–56.
96. Lumen Gentium, 17.
97. Paul VI, 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 Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions Nostra Aetate, 2; Lumen Gentium, 16; Ad Gentes, 9; Evangelii Nuntiandi, 53: loc. cit. 41f.
99. Cf. Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Ecclesiam Suam (August 6, 1964): AAS 56 (1964), 609–659; 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. John Paul II, Letter to the Fifth Plenary Assembly of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (June 23, 1990), 4: L’Osservatore Romano, July 18, 1990.
101. Lumen Gentium, 14; cf. Ad Gentes, 7.
102. Cf. Decree on Ecumenism Unitatis Redintegratio, 3; Ad Gentes, 7.
103. Cf. Redemptor Hominis, 12: loc. cit., 279.
104. Ad Gentes, 11, 15.
105. Nostra Aetate, 2.
106. Christifideles Laici, 35: loc. cit., 458.
107. Cf. Ad Gentes, 41.
108. John Paul II, 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. John Paul II, 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; Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 27–41: loc. cit., 547–572.
112. Cf. Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 28: loc. cit., 548–550.
113. Cf. ibid., Chapter IV, 27–34: loc. cit., 547–560; Populorum Progressio, 19–21, 41–42: loc. cit., 266–268, 277f.
114. John Paul II, 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. Ad Gentes, 20.
118. Christifideles Laici, 35: loc. cit., 458.
119. Cf. Ad Gentes, 38.
120. John Paul II, 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. Lumen Gentium, 23.
122. 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. 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. Ad Gentes, 27.
134. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests Presbyterorum Ordinis, 10; cf. 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. John Paul II, 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. Ad Gentes, 38; Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, Norms Postquam Apostoli, 24–25: loc. cit., 361.
139. Cf. Norms Postquam Apostoli, 29: loc. cit., 362f.; Ad Gentes, 20.
140. CIC, c. 783.
141. Ad Gentes, 40.
142. Cf. 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.; Evangelii Nuntiandi, 70–73: loc. cit., 59–63.
145. Christifideles Laici, 35: loc. cit., 457.
146. Cf. Evangelii Praecones: loc. cit., 510–514.
147. Cf. Lumen Gentium, 17, 33ff.
148. Cf. Ad Gentes, 35–36, 41.
149. 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. Lumen Gentium, 31; cf. CIC, c. 225, 2.
152. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 70: loc. cit., 60.
153. Christifideles Laici, 35: loc. cit., 458.
154. Ad Gentes, 17.
155. Catechesi Tradendae, 66: loc. cit., 1331.
156. Cf. c. 785, 1.
157. 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. Ad Gentes, 28.
160. John Paul II, Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus (June 28, 1988), 85: AAS 80 (1988), 881; cf. Ad Gentes, 29.
161. Ad Gentes, 29; cf. Pastor Bonus, 86: loc. cit., 882.
162. 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. Ad Gentes, 34; Ecclesiae Sanctae, III, 22: loc. cit., 787.
166. Ad Gentes, 35; cf. CIC, cc. 211, 781.
167. 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, 1952, p. 35.
170. Ad Gentes, 38.
171. Lumen Gentium, 13.
172. Ad Gentes, 24.
173. Presbyterorum Ordinis, 14.
174. Christifideles Laici, 17: loc. cit., 419.
175. Lumen Gentium, 1.
176. Cf. John Paul II, 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), 362–363.
178. Ibid., 22: loc. cit., 390.