Sts Cyril and Methodius - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 25 Oct 2023 22:58:11 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Sts Cyril and Methodius - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope Francis: To evangelise, ‘faith must be inculturated' https://cathnews.co.nz/2023/10/26/pope-francis-to-evangelise-faith-must-be-inculturated/ Thu, 26 Oct 2023 04:50:15 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=165339 Pope Francis, in his ongoing catechetical series on apostolic zeal, spoke about the example of Sts Cyril and Methodius, the ninth-century "apostles of the Slavs" whose mission was built on three pillars: unity, inculturation, and liberty. At the centre of the pope's Oct 25 general audience was an emphasis on the relationship — and harmonisation Read more

Pope Francis: To evangelise, ‘faith must be inculturated'... Read more]]> Pope Francis, in his ongoing catechetical series on apostolic zeal, spoke about the example of Sts Cyril and Methodius, the ninth-century "apostles of the Slavs" whose mission was built on three pillars: unity, inculturation, and liberty.

At the centre of the pope's Oct 25 general audience was an emphasis on the relationship — and harmonisation — between culture and faith. This process of inculturation is seen in the example of Sts Cyril and Methodius, whose task was to "study the culture of those peoples in-depth," the pope said.

Pope Francis recounted the story of the two brothers as one of encounter with the Slavic people, who had to confront a "pagan" culture, thereby integrating the faith into the specific, local cultural context.

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