From ................ National Catholic Reporter

January 17, 1997

page 23

- Thank you for covering Call to Action and Call to Holiness thoroughly. Even our Denver newspaper made this a featured article under the heading "Catholics at crossroads," indicating there is a crisis in the church.

Of course there is. It's the latest in an uneven and unbroken chain of crises dating back to the first disciples of Jesus.

The Catholic church to be true to itself is an ever-reforming and renewing church. This inner tension is energizing and life-giving as well as tiring and frustrating.

It keeps reminding us that we are a people of faith, hope and love, seeking to be true to our calling as daughters and sons of God, trusting in God's promise of the Spirit to inspire and enlighten us. ....

MARK FRANCESCHINI, OSM Westminster, Colo.

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