"Being myself a Father of the Council, I experienced personally the solidarity and collegiality which we felt as we kept on voting on the "aggiornamento" of the Church. The kind of Church which is pictured in the Council documents evidently is a church of communion with a leadership of service, the ideal of a more decentralized and open Church, with intimate relationships between clergy and laity."
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Exc. Most Rev. Gérard-Joseph DESCHAMPS, S.M.M., Bishop of Daru-Kiunga, Papua New Guinea (24 November 1998) Press Office of the Holy See
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