Story topics included initial community reaction, healing efforts, seminarian screening and a squestion and answer interview with Philip Jenkins, a professor of history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Jenkins studies social panics that surround serial murders, missing children, priest pedophilia and now, changing perceptions of child abuse in the United States. The special section on healing garnered first place in the Best Special Supplement with Advertising Emphasis. Mrs. O'Leary also won a second-place award for Best Body of Work Advertising. Judges said Mrs. O'Leary produced excellent work with tremendous personal and business challenges met with style and flair.
Ads are eye-catching, attractive and inviting to the reader.
The advertising staff again won an award for its Best Media Kit. This year the paper1s kit won second place in the 17,001 to 40,000 circulation category. The paper1s reporting of Pope John Paul1s visit to Cuba chronicled not only the historical significance of that event but also its impact on the people of Cuba and Catholics elsewhere.