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MISSION STATEMENT
1) We are faithful Catholics, united with our bishops, in full communion with the universal Catholic
Church.
2) We accept the teaching authority of our Church, regarding matters of faith and morals, including the
traditional role of the bishops and the pope.
3) We support the principle of collegiality, that the bishops, united with their head, the bishop of Rome,
constitute a college and are the subjects of supreme and full power over the universal Church. The
union of bishops among themselves and with the bishop of Rome symbolizes the communion of
churches which constitute the whole body of Christ.
4) We love our Parish and actively support it through our services of heart, mind and hands.
5) We work with our bishops, clergy, and other members to strengthen the unity and welfare of our
Parish family, and we protect and support members in need.
6) We believe that abuse of power by clergy causes human suffering, damages the moral fibre of the
Parish and separates many of the faithful from full communion.
7) We support the principle of subsidiarity, the time-honoured Catholic social principle which holds that
nothing is to be done by a higher group, agency or level of authority that can be done better or as
well by a lower group, agency or level of authority.
8) We believe that the laity has the graced dignity, intelligence, responsibility and obligation to cooperate
in Church governance in a meaningful way according to the norm of law (cf. Canon 129) to
extirpate the profound flaws that have been revealed in the human institutional life of our Church.
9) We believe that the council documents of Vatican II illuminate the pathway for lay involvement in the
church.
10) We urge that the openness and mutual respect advocated by Pope John Paul II in Ut Unum Sint
("That All May Be One") be the model for meaningful dialogue among bishops and laity.
