Yes, it sounds like a contradiction in terms usually used to describe quite different branches of Christianity, but Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st Century Church is the title of a new book by George Weigel, who is called by the National Catholic Register the "greatest observer of the global Catholic Church."
He says that "deep reform" is coming to the Catholic Church in this century based on the Gospel. "Evangelical Catholicism . . preaches no generic truth-about-God. Rather, Evangelical Catholicism, born from the Old and New Testaments [the Bible], proclaims that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob . . . finally and definitively revealed himself in Jesus of Nazareth, Son of God and son of Mary . . No one comes to the Father except through friendship with Jesus Christ."
Going further, he calls for nominal Catholics who don't actually believe the Bible's claims to either convert fully or to leave the Church
He also offers comment on Europe's critical drop in birth rates: "the demographic winter into which Europe has seemingly consigned itself in the 21st century, by its willful failure to produce future generations, can be read as the result of a malaise that hung over much of the West . ."
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