Baltimore, Maryland: Mary must be our key to the New Evangelization in the U.S., the incoming head of the U.S. bishops’ evangelization committee says. “The greatest evangelization that ever happened in the history of the world was when Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in what is now Mexico City, and converted seven million people within ten years,” Bishop Andrew Cozzens, auxiliary bishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis, told CNA in an interview at the recent fall meeting of the U.S. bishops’ conference. “So divine help is the ultimate goal,” he said.
Bishop Cozzens was elected as the chairman of the Committee on Evangelization of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) at the recent fall assembly in Baltimore, from November 11-13, 2019. “Teaching that Mary’s role in our faith and in the family can really help strengthen families” is essential, he told the CNA.
