This article is most timely. Following hard on our report in the January issue, of the ASM reflections on last year's conferences at Melbourne (CWME) and Pattaya (COWE), it suggests an alternative resolution to a problem that concerns us all — the polarization between Conciliar and non-Conciliar approaches to the mission of the Church. Cox suggests that we learn from history or — to follow the familiar line — we may be condemned to repeat it!
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