Dave Hunt's newsletter, The Berean Call, September, 1996:

Detroit Free Press, 7/3/96: The end of the millenium is at hand, but the Roman Catholic Church is launching a five-year, multimedia campaign to reassure people that it's not the end of the world."Some of our brothers and sisters look to the end of this century with a great deal of anxiety," Detroit Cardinal Adam Maida says in the introduction of a packet of booklets, videotapes and posters that will be distributed to all 310 Catholic parishes in southeast Michigan in September.

Maida has commissioned production of a 90-minute video that warns Catholics about the inevitable apocalyptic frenzy, declaring: "From millenialists to the New Age movement - from the preoccupation with angels and near-death experiences to fear of the anti-Christ - the countdown is on!" "Hope is our overall theme, rather than the doom, gloom and fear that's out there," said Karl Seilo, who is writing and shooting the videos.

In addition to Seilo's videos, Msgr. John Zenz will appear in a series of Bible-study videos explaining the frightening imagery in the Book of Revelation. "I want people to know that they shouldn't read Revelation as a book that predicts the future," Zenz said. "It was written to give hope to Christians in the first century struggling with the Roman Empire. If people understand it, the book can have a message of hope for us today, too."

[The Berean Call comments: The monsignor himself may need the most help understanding it; unless, of course, he can document that God's wrath (which decimates a third of the earth and kills a third of mankind), the world-wide rule and worship of the Antichrist, the Second Coming of Christ and His thousand-year reign from Jerusalem, all took place in the first century!]