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Appendix and Helpful Resources
Appendix and Helpful Resources
In addition to Pope Francis’s Evangelii Gaudium, it can be helpful
for participants to read:
• Vatican II: Gaudium et Spes (1965) and Ad Gentes: On the
Mission Activity of the Church (1965)
• Bl. Paul VI: Evangelii Nuntiandi (1975)
• St. John Paul II: Christifideles Laici (1988), Redemptoris
Missio (1990), Ecclesia in America (1999) and Novo
Millennio Ineunte (2001)
• Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: Caritas in Vertitate (2009)
• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
(USCCB) Resources:
o Living as Missionary Disciples: A Resource for
Evangelization, Committee on Evangelization and
Catechesis (2017)
o Disciples Called to Witness, Committee on
Evangelization and Catechesis (2012)
o Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord,
Committee on the Laity (2005)
o Go and Make Disciples: A National Plan and
Strategy for Catholic Evangelization in the United
States, Committee on Evangelization (2002)
For those who wish to explore the landscape and mission field
and gain an understanding of the peripheries across the United
States more in-depth, here is a list of select sources:
• The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate
(CARA): http://cara.georgetown.edu/ and http://nineteen-
sixty-four.blogspot.com/. Several CARA studies were done
in collaboration with the USCCB:
o Cultural Diversity in the Catholic Church in the
United States (Special Report: October 2016):
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