During the Waco, Texas, Crisis in March the Dean of the College of Cardinals at the Vatican asked a papal representative to the archbishop of Mexico City, leading prelate of the church in Mexico, to secure a copy of The Great Controversy, presumably in order to evaluate its comment on the Catholic Church. He is an American citizen and has a direct telephone line to the Vatican. Robert Folkenberg was away from his office when the representative called, who then conversed with George Reid, director of the Biblical Research Institute. Reid referred him to Pacific Press, publisher of The Great Controversy. In itself this is a relatively innocuous incident, but preceding the visit of the pope to this country in August and the anti-Catholic billboard campaign in Florida, Oregon, and reportedly Jamaica, it may have ominous overtones.