Meet Fr John: your guide to Herald 2000

To guide you through the Herald 2000 project over the next 99 weeks, is Father John Orme Mills,OP
FOR THE NEXT 99 weeks yes, right up to that Millenrxium you are now hearing an much about I urn to be your host.
I have been asked to co-ordinate the Herald 2000 project, from preparing this page, through whatever suggestions we can work out, to the final assessment of the success of the project in the last week of 1999, God willing. I am a Dominican priest, at present living with eleven other Dominicans in a community in north London. However, 1 did not become a Dominican until I was 39. Before that I was in journalism and publishing.
have never altogether escaped from that world. I thought, In my innocence, that when I entered religious life that 1 would become quite a different human being.
In fart, only a few months after my ordination the then Master of the Dominican Order in Hoene asked me to try to make Dominicans all round the world more media conscious.
And ever since I finally got back to
Britain from doing that job I have been writing and editing and meeting new people almost without a break.
I became excited about this project Herald 2000 from the moment that the Catholic Herald's Managing Director rang me up and talked about it. I hope that you become equally excited, and feel that you also can bring things to it. I am very much looking forward to receiving your suggestions.
I shall be spending a lot of time between now and Easter in the Catholic Herald editorial office, studying all those suggestions and reporting on them to the team guiding the project.
After Easter the team will be deciding which of the suggestions it is practical (or just (un!) to implement, and how, part of my job will be to keep closely in touch with you•
Look out for a Herald 2000 column on any of the pages in future issues of the Catholic Herald.
Let an pray to the Lord that we may develop a good working relationship.