“Our time, in fact, with its own problems, is characterized by loss of direction and uncertainties,” the Vatican said in announcing John Paul II’s apostolic exhortatiuon due out in October. “Even many Christians seem disoriented and without hope. In this context, we pastors are called to proclaim the Gospel and to be witnesses of hope, with our gaze directed toward the cross, to the mystery of the triumph and fecundity of Christ crucified.” CCI hopes the bishops will not only listen, but act on the Holy Father’s exhortations.