A Step Up

When I took on the editorship of the Carmelite Review back in 2001, I knew ‘beans’ about publishing. My only credential was that I had been a proofreader of the Review when Father William Harry, O.Carm., had been the editor.

God provides, though, in that Mr. Sal Lema came on board as the Director of the Carmelite Communications Center at the same time. He taught me a lot about layout, about printing processes, and about distribution. Meanwhile I’ve taught Sal a bit, too—about the Carmelites, our Mission, our spirituality and our ministries.

Maybe we were both good pupils as well as good teachers because we’re switching seats. Sal will now be, starting with this issue, the editor-inchief of the Carmelite Review and I will be the consulting editor.

What will this change mean for the Review? I suspect it’s a change for the better. Most of the changes you’ve seen in the Review over these past few years—things like full-color printing, new layout designs, a full page photograph for the cover—were Sal’s ideas and I was simply happy to take credit for them. Yes, Sal is creative and talented and I’m sure he will take the Review a notch or two or three or four forward.

–Father Gregory Houck, O.Carm.,
Former editor-in-chief, now consulting editor