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Proloquium
The
publication you now hold in your hands or are
sampling on-line marks a new beginning for the Old
Roman Catholic Church in North America.
As
Bishop Facione writes in his column,
Deus
Caritas,
the Church has announced its news and proclaimed
its faith in a succession of journals dating back
to the 1920s. While the writing was often
outstanding, as is evidenced by the late Father
Lavon M. Haithman's "Whom Do Ye Say That I Am?" in
From
the archives,
publication was, at best sporadic. In the 1950s and
60s, during what Bishop Facione calls the Church's
"dark night of the soul", fifteen years elapsed
between publications of an official "house organ".
After the final issue of the Augustinian
appeared in 1969, other less comprehensive
publications were attempted, but once again, they
appeared with inconsistent frequency. But as they
say, that was then and this is now. In June 1999,
at their annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky,
the bishops resoundingly affirmed Bishop Facione's
commitment to inaugurate a publication that would
both provide a medium for the dissemination of news
of the Old Roman Catholic Church in North America
and a forum for the discussion of a wide variety of
views that meet -- or
collide -- at
the intersection of faith and a culture that is
increasingly hostile to Judeo-Christianity, and
indeed, much of Western tradition. The result of
the bishops' commitment is New Perspectives: the
Church in the Post-Modern World, and it is with
great joy as an Old Roman Catholic Christian, a
profound belief in this journal's mission, and
gratitude to the bishops for entrusting its
editorship to me that I welcome you to it. Please
join us in sharing perspectives on this great
journey we call faith. -- Valerie
Kane
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