On May 28, 2004, Pope John Paul II gave the following challenge to a group of American Bishops� "The word of God must not be chained; instead, it must resound before the world in all its liberating truth as a word of grace and salvation.
�This will require a profound renewal of the missionary and prophetic sense of the whole People of God, and the conscious mobilization of the Church's resources in the work of an evangelization which enables individual Christians to give an account of the hope that is within them and the Church as a whole to speak courageously and with a united voice in addressing the great moral and spiritual issues confronting the men and
women of our time."
