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By Karl Keating

This Rock Volume 5, Number 7/8   July/August 1994     Up Front By Karl Keating   Letters   Dragnet   OUT OF THE CLOSET AND INTO CHASTITY By DAVID C. MORRISON   Sidebar Catechism of the Catholic Church on Homosexuality By David C. Morrison   Sidebar Courage Chapter Forming Online To Help Homosexuals Lead Chaste And Holy Lives By David C. Morrison   SECTS AND SIN IN MANILA By PATRICK MADRID   BBS Transcript "Are You Being Consistent?"   Classic Apologetics The Paradoxes of Christianity By G.K.Chesterton   New Testament Guide Thessalonians By Antonio Fuentes   Fathers Know Best Homosexuality   Verse by Verse Calling Priests "Father"   Quick Questions    Subscribe    Permissions

WITHIN the next few weeks you'll receive a letter from me. Yes, it will be a form letter, but I hope you'll read it anyway. It won't have anything to do, at least not directly, with This Rock, but it will concern something written up in this issue. (See page 17.)

If you've read this magazine for any length of time, you know about Catholic Answers' work last year at World Youth Day '93, held in Denver. There we distributed nearly a quarter of a million copies of a special booklet, Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth. We expect to print several million copies over the next two or three years, with a large proportion in languages other than English.

We're grateful to note that Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth has been well received by Catholics and non-Catholics, even though it was intended mainly for the former. If our mail is a fair indicator, the booklet has helped thousands to come into or back into the faith.

Now we have an opportunity to reach even more people with Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth. World Youth Day '95 will be held in Manila in January. Organizers expect one million people to listen to Pope John Paul II--more than double the Denver crowd. Many of those people will travel to the Philippines from America. We want to get the booklet into as many hands as possible, to revivify the faith throughout the world, and we ask you to start thinking and praying now about helping us to do that.

I'll give you the details in the forthcoming letter. Thanks.