We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.
Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized. ' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and in vocations are losing their identity under the influence of a secularized culture. The need for a new evangelization, so deeply felt by my venerable Predecessor, must be valiantly reaffirmed, in the certainty that God's word is effective.