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thought for Vatican III
Blueprint for Vatican III
What is it?
NCR’s editors circulated the following to Catholics in various parts of the world:
  • Which THREE  issues do you believe a future General Council of the Roman Catholic Church must address, with a sentence for each explaining why. What are up to 12 additional items you would want to see on a Council agenda, with a sentence on each.
  • No names will be mentioned. No one will be quoted by name.
  • We want the voices weighted toward Asia, Oceania, Africa and Latin America/Mexico.
  • The tag, `Vatican III,` is purely utilitarian. Obviously the sessions ought to be held in cities large and small throughout the developing world, with perhaps the final session held in Rome. This Council, realistically, ought to be Haiti I, or Calcutta I, or Benin City I, or Aotearoa I, or World Church I.
The request for “three” issues produced three major topics: Church Governance; the People of God; the Church in the World. The responses that formulated the three topics all appeared in the National Catholic Reporter issue of May 3, 2002. 

The broader and often entertaining discussion of 12 additional items for a Council agenda were referred to the website. And those appear below, as does some of the commentary that came with them from the respondents.

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