"After twenty-five years of priesthood and twenty years in the mass media ministry, I took a sabbatical year, Easter '88 to Easter '89, to learn how the church in other countries and cultures was using communications to evangelize. I wanted to visit Catholic communicators worldwide; to learn from their successes and slips, to peek over their shoulders without getting on their backs [...] Invitations to conduct training woprkshops arrived from India, Africa, Europe [...] To make it possible for me to travel for 53 weeks to 47 countries - almost 3 times around the world with cutbacks and criss-crosses - many generous sources contributed finances ..." (Pages i-ii)