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Lesson 20

Into Our Century

Today there are both many challenges facing the Church and many reasons for hope.

Lesson Vocabulary

  • Phenomenology
    :
    (n.): A philosophical system that seeks to objectively study things that are typically considered to be subjective, such as human consciousness, emotions, judgments, and experiences, by reflectively reducing them to the essential elements and then considering the relationship of those elements to each other.
  • Iron Curtain
    :
    (n.): A political boundary separating the Soviet Union and its European allies from the rest of Europe prior to the Fall of the Soviet Union.
  • Glasnost
    :
    (n.): Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of openness to political debate.
  • New Evangelization
    :
    (n.): The term coined by Pope St. Paul VI in his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, and later adopted as an important theme by Pope St. John Paul II, that describes the work of bringing the Gospel to lands which were once Christian, but whose residents have forgotten the truth of Christianity.
  • Culture of Death
    :
    (n.): A culture that is so excessively concerned with efficiency that it considers life that is vulnerable, inconvenient, or dependent as disposable.
  • Catechism of the Catholic Church
    :
    (n.): A major catechism promulgated by Pope St. John Paul II in 1992 intended for use by the universal Church as a systematic presen-tation of the fundamentals of Catholic doc-trine, as the sure norm for catechesis, and for the development of minor catechisms — na-tional or local catechisms or ones intended for use by specific populations — and other catechetical materials throughout the Church. It is the first such catechism issued since the 1565 Roman Catechism issued after the Council of Trent.
  • Theology of the Body
    :
    (n.): A series of talks given by Pope St. John Paul II over many months of Wednesday audiences, in which he provided a teaching on the nature of man rooted in the first three chapters of Genesis, and proposed that “the body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and divine.”
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