Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization Confirmed

In this perspective, I have decided to create a new organism, in the form of a pontifical council, with the specific task of promoting a renewed evangelization in countries where the first proclamation of the faith already resounded, and where Churches are present of ancient foundation, but which are going through a progressive secularization of society and a sort of "eclipse of the sense of God," which constitutes a challenge to find the appropriate means to propose again the perennial truth of the Gospel of Christ.

—Pope Benedict XVI, Homily at 1^st Vespers of SS Peter and Paul, 28^th June 2010