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U p F r o n t
By Karl Keating
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This Rock
Volume 4, Number 5
 May 1993 
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DURING parish seminars I often find that my listeners are not sure what I mean when I call myself an apologist. I define the term for them: "An apologist is someone who goes around the country apologizing for being a Catholic."
The quip gets a good chuckle, and the audience immediately realizes that apologetics really has nothing to do with apologizing in the colloquial sense. Quite the contrary. But sometimes apologists do need to apologize in the colloquial sense, and this is a good time for me to do so.
I ask your indulgence (a very Catholic word!) regarding the tardiness of This Rock. I want to explain why the magazine has been running late. It's not so much a function of our having a small staff--which we are trying diligently to augment--but of our having a once-in-a-lifetime chance to "do something beautiful for God," in Mother Teresa's phrase. I refer to our Denver project.
We're printing 300,000 copies of a booklet that will be distributed free to the young Catholics who will attend World Youth Day '93. Naturally, such largesse doesn't come cheap. Total costs will run into six figures. Raising that kind of money is extraordinarily time consuming, especially when it must be raised in dribs and drabs. (No, we haven't found a sugar daddy yet.)
The result: The magazine has fallen behind, but fear not. Starting with this issue you will receive issues about twice monthly until we're caught up. Given the good the booklets will do, I hope you consider the inconvenience worthwhile.
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