Maybe I am missing something, but I think there is something wrong here.

This is also a commitment of the New Evangelization in the times of an economic crisis that are cutting funds for health care. In this very context hospitals and structures for assistance must rethink their role to prevent health, first and foremost a universal good to be guaranteed and defended from becoming a mere “product” subjected to the laws of the market, hence accessible to few. The special attention owed to the dignity of the suffering can never be forgotten, applying also in the context of health-care policies the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity.

To participants in the XVII Council of Europe Conference of Directors of Prison Administration (22 November 2012)
[English, Italian]

Sometimes the problems with new phrases is that they are used so often without definition. It is also easy to get such phrases mixed with other phrases.  Often you hear the New Evangelization as being mixed in with New Media. So defining terms is always important.

So I was glad to see this article by Fr. Brian Mullady, OP who answers the question “What is the New Evangelization.”

His explanation reminded me of one of my favorite Chesterton quotes:

“It is an old story that, while we may need somebody like Dominic to convert the heathen to Christianity, we are in even greater need of somebody like Francis, to convert the Christians to Christianity.””The Dumb Ox”

The New Evangelization is a both/and approach and really not new but renewed.  Maybe that is what has come to annoy me about the term is just how misused “New” is.  We are constantly blasted with how something is new in advertising copy.  Although I am quite glad Blessed John Paul II did not call it the “New and Improved Evangelization.”