41.   The whole church is preparing for the third Christian millennium.

42.   They will also discuss ecumenicism, interreligious dialogue, biotechnology and human reproduction, the need for holiness in everyday life and evangelization in the third millennium.

43.   Thus we limp along into the third millennium and still label only women by marital status.

44.   Those are the early trends you and your peers will be turning into mass movements as we move into the third millennium.

45.   To usher in the third millennium, the pope had hoped to visit holy sites from both the Old and New Testaments.

46.   Unless churches can find new forms to tell old stories and a new idiom to weave ancient truth, the third millennium may see Christianity slip into irreversible decline.

47.   Vatican merchandising and marketing are not so much new as newly refined for the third millennium.

48.   What will it look like as Planet Earth continues its journey into the third millennium?

49.   Which, if correct, means we jumped the gun once again last night if we toasted the dawn of the third millennium.

50.   Yet now, on the verge of its third millennium, all that is overthrown.