Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC III)

(May 28, 2011) The Anglican - Roman Catholic International Commission has completed the first meetingof its new phase (ARCIC III) at the Monastery of Bose in northern Italy (May 17-27, 2011). TheCommission, chaired by the Most Reverend David Moxon (Anglican Archbishop of the New
Zealand Dioceses) and the Most Reverend Bernard Longley (Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Birmingham) comprises eighteen theologians from a wide range of backgrounds across the
world1. In response to the Programme set forth by Pope Benedict and Archbishop Rowan
Williams in their 2006 Common Declaration, discussions have focussed on the interrelated
issues: the Church as Communion, local and universal, and how in communion the local and
universal Church come to discern right ethical teaching. The Programme also required the
Commission to re-examine how the “commitment to the common goal of the restoration of
complete communion in faith and sacramental life”2 is to be understood and pursued today, and
to present the work of ARCIC II in its entirety with appropriate commentaries to assist its
reception.. The Commission will now organize papers and continue its work along
the lines it has proposed, in preparation for its next meeting in 2012