From CHRISTIANITY TODAY 2/6/87, "Roman Catholics are planning a billion dollar project that could turn out

to be the largest evangelistic effort ever attempted by the 810 million member church. Called `EVANGELISM 2000', the ten-year project will culminate with a world-wide satellite telecast on Christmas Day in the year 2000. During the telecast, the pope is scheduled to speak to a potential audience of 5 billion people. "Tom Forrest, a Redemptorist priest, is in charge. It was conceived in 1984 by Catholic charismatic and conservative Catholic student movement. Forrest said, `The object is to give Jesus Christ a 2,000th birthday gift of a world more Christian than not.' "The 1400 member Catholic charismatic Community of God's Delight in South Dallas will produce television programs which will be beamed to portable satellite receiving disks. "Forrest is planning to organize a retreat for the world's Catholic bishops in 1989. A world conference for 7000 priests is planned for 1990. Both conferences will provide these men with books and sermons on evangelism. "Other aspects include a papal proclamation of a decade of evangelism, a world wide prayer crusade and traveling evangelistic teams." From message by Tom Forrest, Redemptorist priest, at Indianapolis '90. "Now because I love being a Catholic, my job, my role in evangelism is not just to make Christians. Our job is to make people as richly and fully Christian as we can by bringing them into the Catholic church. No, you don't invite someone to become a Christian. You invite them to become Catholics. There are seven sacraments, and the Catholic church has all seven. On our altars we have the body of Christ; we drink the blood of Christ. As Catholics we have Mary. And that Mom of ours, Queen of Paradise, is praying for us till she sees us in glory. As Catholics - now I love this one - we have purgatory. Thank God! I'm one of those people who would never get to the Beatific Vision without it! it's the only way to go. Our job is to use this remaining decade evangelizing everyone we can into the Catholic Church."