Don't water down Gospel says Archbishop Lacroix

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Archbishop Lacroix says softening the message not part of the new evangelization
By Deborah Gyapong
Canadian Catholic News

OTTAWA (CCN)—Quebec Archbishop Gerald Lacroix believes it is a mistake to “mellow down the Gospel” to draw people.

Softening the message has nothing to do with the new evangelization, says the Primate of Canada, though some people have tried to make the Gospel “sweeter” and “easier,” telling people “it’s not as difficult as you think” or “you don’t have to convert completely.”

“That’s not what will attract people,” Lacroix said in an interview from Quebec City Nov. 14. “Our mission must be to preach the truth of the Gospel, and the full message of the Gospel.”

“The rest does not belong to us,” he said. “Some will convert and will follow Christ; others will reject us and persecute us for being different.”

At the recent plenary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), Lacroix said he exhorted his brother bishops to make the New Evangelization “absolutely first in our pastoral activities.”