Good evangelizers are good communicators, cardinal says in Missouri

Published: 2008-02-11

COLUMBIA, Mo. (CNS) -- Good evangelizers are good communicators, so Catholics must make the most of the tools available to them for sharing the good news of Jesus Christ, U.S. Cardinal John P. Foley told an audience in Columbia. The cardinal, who served as president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications at the Vatican for 23 years, gave an address Feb. 1 at St. Thomas More Newman Center on the campus of the University of Missouri. "What is more important than teaching people about Jesus?" he asked. "That's why the church continues to proclaim the good news -- not only the good news of Jesus Christ but the good news of our origin and purpose in life and the good news about what is done by the church in the name of Jesus." His trip to Columbia also included a discussion with graduate students of the university's journalism school, which is marking its 100th anniversary, and a Mass with students of Columbia Catholic School for Catholic Schools Week. Cardinal Foley is now head of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher.

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