(16 May 05 - RV) The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission is releasing
the document Mary: Hope and Grace in Christ in Seattle. In the last twenty
years, the Commission has published four agreed statements - Salvation and the
Church (1987), The Church as Communion (1991), Life in Christ (1994)
and The Gift of Authority (1999). In 1999, the Commission began work on a consideration
of the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the life and doctrine of the Church. Philippa
Hitchen spoke to the Catholic Co-Chair of ARCIC, Father Donald Bolen, about the latest
document.