{"id":1173,"date":"2006-06-13T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/evangelizingwho.html"},"modified":"2006-06-13T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T14:22:08","slug":"evangelizingwho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/evangelizingwho.html","title":{"rendered":"Evangelizing…who?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Magister on the "new evangelization" at the cathedral in Milan.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, who knows if this is all they’re up to, how selective Magister is in the telling, and so on. Even with those cautions, I’m having a hard time visualizing all of this and how help anyone, anywhere, connect with, you know, Christ. It’s elitist and self-aggrandizing.<\/p>\n

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One of the key phrases of the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI is \u201cnew evangelization.\u201d But in the Duomo of Milan, the cathedral of one of the most important and populous dioceses in the world, governed by cardinal Carlo Maria Martini until 2002 and now by cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, this formula is being implemented in highly original ways. <\/p>\n

Since September 22, 2005, in the cathedral\u2019s crypt, beside the relics of Saint Charles Borromeo, who together with Saint Ambrose is a patron of Milan, there has been a video installation by English artist Mark Wallinger. It is entitled \u201cVia Dolorosa.\u201d The visitor enters a darkened box with black walls and three benches inside. He sits down and watches, for 18 minutes, scenes of the Passion excerpted from the film \u201cJesus of Nazareth\u201d by Franco Zeffirelli. Or better, he must imagine watching these scenes, because the screen is almost entirely blocked by a black rectangle, as in the illustration above. There is no soundtrack. <\/p>\n

The video installation is intended to remain there \u201cforever.\u201d At its inauguration, monsignor Luigi Manganini, archpriest of the cathedral of Milan, said that \u201cthe evangelization of the third millennium needs today\u2019s forms of art,\u201d and so the electronic image rightly enters the cathedral \u201cwith the same force as the entire history of great painting and sculpture.\u201d <\/p>\n

Manganini\u2019s right hand man, Fr. Luigi Garbini, entered more deeply into the substance of the work. From the premise that \u201cthe Italian Church is stagnant in its inability to interpret contemporary phenomena,\u201d he explained that \u201cthe blocking of 90 percent of the view brings the visitor into a cloud of unknowing, in which he finally faces the free decision: to believe or not believe.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Magister on the "new evangelization" at the cathedral in Milan. Now, who knows if this is all they’re up to, how selective Magister is in the telling, and so on. Even with those cautions, I’m having a hard time visualizing all of this and how help anyone, anywhere, connect with, you know, Christ. 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