VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic Church needs a “creative strategy” to bring religion back in nations that were once a bedrock of faith, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan said in a major address at the Vatican Friday, a day before he becomes a cardinal. Dolan, 62, who also holds the powerful post of head of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference, made the keynote address in the presence of Pope Benedict and more than 100 cardinals at what was billed as a day of reflection before the solemn ceremony. He spoke of the “new evangelization” – the term the Vatican has given to the effort to shore up the Church in modern secular societies “that once had been the very engine of gospel values,” such…

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