Pope Benedict has appointed ten new consultants to the recently constituted Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization.

The new consultors are:

Msgr. Fernando Ocariz, vicar general of Opus Dei;
Fr. Pascual Chavez Villanueva, rector major of the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco and president of the Union of Superiors General;
Fr. Julian Carron, president of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation and ecclesiastical assistant to the Association "Memores Domini";
Fr. Francois-Xavier Dumortier, S.J., rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome;
Fr. Pierangelo Sequeri, vice rector and professor of Fundamental Theology at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy and lecturer in Aesthetics of the Holy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera, Milan;
Sr. Sara Butler, M.S.B.T., professor of dogmatic theology at St. Joseph's Seminary in New York;
Sr. Mary Lou Wirtz, F.C.J.M., general superior of the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and president of the Union of Superior Generals (UISG);
Dr. Chiara Amirante, founder and president of the New Horizons Association of the diocese of Anagni-Alatri, Italy;
Mr. Kiko Arguello, a co-initiator of the Neo-Catechumenal Way;
Prof. Lucetta Scaraffia, professor of contemporary history in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at "La Sapienza" University in Rome.

Archbishop Rino Fisichella chairs the council. It was created in October 2010 to promote evangelization in mostly European countries, that face secularism. Five representatives from various Church movements were appointed along with five experts. The new members include four women.

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Pontifical Acts (Vatican Information Service)

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