Catholic Almanac

2008 Edition

Greg Erlandson, Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Matthew E. Bunson, General Editor

Murray W. Hubley, Production Editor

Cathy Dee, Web Editor

Contributors to the 2008 Edition

Dr. John Borelli, Barbara Fraze, Dr. Eugene Fisher, Brother Jeffrey Gros, F.S.C., Rev. Ronald Roberson, C.S.P.
Rev. C. Eugene Morris, Russell Shaw, Rev. Francis Tiso

Jane Cavolina, Editorial Consultant
Carrie Bannister, Assistant

Dedication: The 2008 edition of Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Almanac is dedicated to Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications from 1984 to 2007 as a small statement of gratitude for his decades of service to the Church.

Acknowledgments: Catholic News Service, for coverage of news and documentary texts; The Documents of Vatican II, ed. W. M. Abbott (Herder and Herder, America Press: New York 1966), for quotations of Council documents; Annuario Pontificio (2007); Statistical Yearbook of the Church (2007); L'Osservatore Romano (English editions); The Official Catholic Directory -- Excerpts of statistical data and other material, reprinted with permission of The Official Catholic Directory, © 2006 by Reed Reference Publishing, a division of Reed Publishing (USA) Inc. Trademark used under license from Reed Publishing (Nederland) B.V.; The Papal Encyclicals, 5 vols., ed. C. Carlen (Pierian Press, Ann Arbor, MI); Newsletter of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy; Kathleen Bullock, Associate for Operations, The United States Catholic Mission Assoc. (3029 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, DC 20017), for U.S. overseas-mission compilations and statistics; Catholic Press Directory (2007); Annuaire Directiore, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, for latest available Canadian Catholic statistics; Rev. Thomas J. Reese, S.J., for names of dioceses for which U.S. bishops were ordained; other sources as credited in particular entries.
Special thanks are owed to His Excellency Most Reverend John P. Foley, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications; Bruce Egnew, Associate General Secretary, USCCB; Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, USCCB; Rev. Mr. William Kokesch, Dir.-Communications Service, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops; Msgr. Michael Servinsky; and Rev. Jorge Francisco Vázquez Moreno, adjunct secretary of the Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano.

Catholic Almanac

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Published annually by Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., 200 Noll Plaza, Huntington, IN 46750
ISBN: 978-1-59276-334-4
ID: T433
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 73-641001
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 0069-1208

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