1998 was the Cuarto Centennial of the settlement of the American Southwest. It is also the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic Church in New Mexico. A new book by LPD Press of Albuquerque, NM, focuses on the history in the life of the people of New Mexico, originally a territory which included New Mexico, Arizona, southern Colorado, southern Utah, and western Texas. Seeds of Struggle - Harvest of Faith features twenty-three essays from some of todays leading scholars and historians. The book is an outgrowth of the research papers presented at the Archdiocese of Santa Fe's Cuatro Centennial Symposium on the History of the Catholic Church in New Mexico held in Santa Fe in later 1997. Authors include: Marc Simmons, Fr. Bob Wright, Nancy Hanks, Fr. Thomas Steele, Pauline Chávez Bent, Pedro Ribera-Ortega, Fr. Jerome Martínez y Alire, José Antonio Esquibel, Paul Kraemer, and many