Pope Benedict Opens Door to Year of Faith

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Pope Benedict XVI opened the Year of Faith with a call to share the faith in our daily lives.  Specifically, in his homily the Pope said, “People of faith are needed who, with their own lives, point out the way to the Promised Land and keep hope alive.” He went on to say that our faith must be informed by the truth of Catholic teaching. He explained that "the new evangelization [must] neither remain just an idea nor be lost in confusion, it needs to be built on a concrete and precise basis, and this basis is the documents of the Second Vatican Council”.