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Global Integration of Catholic Missions in the United States Today Marcello Zago, O.M.I Global Integration of Catholic Missions in the United States Today Marcello Zago, O.M.I. ission is the workof the HolySpirit, but the HolySpirit seminaries and in the sendingof missionariesfor variousperiods M assumes and seeks human collaboration. Therefore of time. mission always comes about and develops in a particular The Catholic Church in the United States is generous in its socioreligious context. Catholic missions in and from the United financial contribution to the missions. Many American men and States of America are no exception. women have served with great generosity as missionaries in many countries. In general, however, the missionary impact of The American Setting American Catholics is less visible, both abroad and within the country among new immigrants. The reasons are ambiguous. It The United States is a leader in many ways: is difficult to discern whether this lessened impact comes from attitudes that are more cautious, or from a certain fear or inferi­ • in racial integration, welcoming immigrants of every extrac­ ority complex, or from a concentration on the needs of its own tion and giving them citizenship; community. • in the exercise of personal and group freedom, including that The history of American Catholics, who came from the four of religion; winds and who have had to insert themselves into a markedly • in the economy,producingwealthandwork,spreadingworld­ Protestant society, perhaps explains a tendency to retreat into wide; themselves. The church had to take care of its own communities • in scientific and technological progress, attracting the greatest and help them become part of the country; its first priority was experts in the world and finding new ways of doing things; not missionary expansion. The time has now come, however, for • in modern social communications, exporting its film produc­ the Catholic Church to be more committed to the mission ad tions and its various news networks and giving rise to a gentes and to have a missionary approach in all her activities globalized culture. within the country and elsewhere. There are many signs that the church is moving in this direction. For many of these reasons American society appears as a precursor of the emerging world that is globalized and pluralis­ To Whom Is Mission Directed? tic. Many of these manifestations can be considered not only as human achievements but also as God's gifts. The Second Vatican Council described Christ's church as mis­ The religious impact of the United States in the world is a sionary "by its very nature" (AdgentesfAG], no. 2),but that does recent and important fact. The Christian churches of evangelical not mean that her every activity is equally missionary and that and charismatic tradition have a widespread and dynamic im­ everysituationhas the same urgency and missionaryvalue. John pact both within the country and worldwide. They have a clear Paul II, in Redemptoris missio (RM), his missionary encyclical, missionary thrust for spreading the Gospel. The attention given indicates three distinct situations with regard to faith and evan­ by these churches to immigrants of whatever origin has always gelization. There are communities of believers toward which the borne fruit in conversions and in the establishment of Christian church continues her pastoral care; there are groups that have communities. American political and cultural presence in other lost the faith and all vital contact with the Christian community, countries, especially in Latin America, has helped their mission­ toward which the church must undertake a new evangelization ary activity. The military regimes in the 1970s and 1980s sup­ or reevangelization; and there are peoples and groups that have ported their growth as part of a policy of diminishing the impact never received the Gospel (RM, no. 33). In regard to the third of the Catholic Church. In different countries many people category,the popesays, "Thereisthe situationwhichthe Church's looked, and still look, at the Unites States as a country formed of missionary activity addresses: peoples, groups and socio-cul­ Protestant communities that were able to give rise to the socio­ tural contexts in which Christ and his Gospel are not known, or economic progress of society. Aided by these attitudes, the which lack Christian communities sufficiently mature to be able Protestant evangelical missionary movement found expression to incarnate the faith in their own environmentand proclaimit to in a variety of humanitarian programs that were normally ac­ other groups. This is mission adgentesin the proper sense of the companied by evangelical and ecclesial proposals. Among the term" (RM, no. 33). He is talking about non-Christian peoples characteristics of Protestant missionary efforts have been in­ and groups that can be found in the different continents and volvement of the laity in short- and long-term projects, commu­ countries. nication between the receiving community and the benefactor, Let us recall the world situation in that regard. The world and various forms of partnership. One notes this dynamic ap­ population is more than six billion. Christians of all kinds make proachalso in the developmentand teachingof missiology in the up two billion. Two-thirds of humanity are non-Christians; they do not know or accept Christ. To them is directed the mission ad gentes, entrusted by Christ to the church as her first duty. Chris­ Archbishop Marcello Zago, O.M.I., Secretary of the Congregation for the tiansall togethermake upover30percentof the population,with Evangelization ofPeoples at theVatican, wasa missionary in Laos forsixteen Catholics accounting for 17.2 percent, but they are not equally years, secretary of the Secretariat for Non-Christians (now the Pontifical Council forInterreligious Dialogue), and Superior General of theMissionary distributed. In Africa they are 14.91percent, in the United States Oblates ofMaryImmaculate (1986-1998). Thisessay wasfirstpresented asthe 26.9 percent, in Europe 41.39 percent, in Oceania 27.54 percent, keynote address at Mission Congress 2000,held September 28 to October I, and in Asia only 2.96 percent. That is why the pope invites us to 2000, in Chicago. Archbishop Zago is author of The Church and Other be more concerned with the evangelization of Asia. Through the Religions, ReflectionsandOrientationson DialogueandMissions (1984). modern migration of peoples there are non-Christian groups 2 INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY RESEARCH established in countries that are traditionally Christian, for ex­ International Bulletin ample Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus in Europe and in North America. of Missionary Research In the postsynodal exhortation Ecclesia in America (EA), the Established 1950 by R. Pierce Beaver as Occasional Bulletin from the pope recognizes that there are such groups in the American Missionary Research Library. Named Occasional Bulletin of Missionary continent in need of a first evangelization: Research 1977. Renamed INrERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY RESEARCH 1981. Published quarterly in January, April, July, and October by Jesus Christ entrusted to his Church the mission of evangelizing Overseas Ministries Study Center all nations.... Evangelization is most urgent among those on this 490 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, U.S.A. continent who do not yet know the name of Jesus, the only name Tel: (203) 624-6672 • Fax: (203) 865-2857 given to men and women that they may be saved (cf, Acts 4:12). E-mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.OMSC.org Unfortunately, the name of Jesus is unknown to a vast part of humanity and in many sectors of American society. It is enough to Editor: Contributing Editors: JonathanJ.Bonk CatalinoG.Arevalo,S.J. MaryMotte,F.M.M. think of the indigenous peoples not yet Christianized or of the David B.Barrett C. RenePadilla presence of non-Christian [immigrants].... Associate Editor: StephenB.Bevans, S.V.D. JamesM.Phillips This obliges the Church in America to be involved in the RobertT.Coote SamuelEscobar Dana L.Robert mission ad gentes. The program of a new evangelization on the BarbaraHendricks,M.M. Lamin Sanneh Americancontinent, to which many pastoral projectsare directed, Assistant Editor: Paul G.Hiebert WilbertR.Shenk cannot be restricted to revitalizing the faith of regular believers, Daniel]. Nicholas Jan A. B.Jongeneel CharlesR.Taber but must strive as well to proclaim Christ where he is not known. SebastianKarotemprel, S.D.B. TiteTienou (EA, no. 74) Senior Contributing Editor David A. Kerr Ruth A.Tucker GeraldH. Anderson Graham Kings DesmondTutu Nonetheless, the churches in America cannot limit them­ Anne-Marie Kool Andrew F.Walls selves to these non-Christians in the United States. The exhorta­ Gary B.McGee AnastasiosYannoulatos tion continues, underlining the universal mission: Books for review and correspondence regarding editorial matters should be Likewise, the particular Churches in America are called to extend addressed to the editors. Manuscripts unaccompanied by a self-addressed, their missionary efforts beyond the bounds of the continent. They stamped envelope (or international postal coupons) will not be returned. cannot keep for themselves the immense riches of their Christian Subscriptions: $23 for one year, $41 for two years, and $57 for three years, heritage. They must take this heritage to the whole world and postpaid worldwide. Airmail delivery is $16 per year extra. Foreign sub­ share it with those who do not yet know it. Here it is a question of scribers must pay in U.S. funds only. Use check drawn on a U.S. bank, many millions of men and women who, without faith, suffer the Visa, MasterCard, or International Money Order in U.S. funds. 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