Finally, the Holy Father highlighted the value of faith, while pointing out that during the next Jubilee of 2025, “we will renew faith in Jesus Christ, true God and true man, hope of history and of the world.”
He also recalled the words of Benedict XVI, when he lamented that faith “is often even denied, mocked, marginalized and ridiculed.”
For this reason, the Holy Father urged the members of the dicastery to commit themselves to the “announcement and communication of the faith in today’s world, especially to the young generations; in the missionary conversion of ecclesiastical structures and pastoral agents; the new urban cultures, with their load of challenges, but also unprecedented questions of meaning; finally and above all, in the centrality of the kerygma in the life and mission of the Church.”
For Pope Francis, “maintaining the faith” today translates “into a commitment to reflection and discernment, so that the entire community strives for a true pastoral and missionary kerygmatic conversion, which also helps the synodal path in progress.”
“What is essential for us, the most beautiful, the most attractive and at the same time the most necessary is faith in Christ Jesus,” he said.
Finally, he expressed that we are all called to announce it to all men and women on earth. “This is the fundamental task of the Church,” she concluded.