Dominican Father Augustine DiNoia, undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, recently stated that “If the church wants to reach young people today, it must avoid the temptation to ‘fudge’ on core Catholic beliefs in an effort to make them more agreeable to contemporary tastes. Instead, it should confront with courage the major barriers in modern evangelization. . . The first, he said, is “the notion that it is arrogant to claim that Jesus Christ is the unique mediator of salvation.” A second barrier to the evangelization of young people in the mistaken and predominant belief that being a Christian means giving up one’s freedom and replacing it with conformity to an external set of rules. Finally, the third major barrier, Father DiNoia said, is the idea that the church’s moral teachings are more or less arbitrary, allowing or forbidding certain things regardless of their real relationship with human goodness. Read the whole report here.