Includes bibliographies.

The word of God and its sovereignty in today's church / Henri-Marie Féret -- The new awareness of the trinitarian basis of the church / Marie-Dominique Chenu -- The rediscovery of the church as an evangelical brotherhood / Giuseppe Ruggieri -- The church universal as the communion of local churches / Joseph Komonchak -- The eschatological tension in the life of the church today / Georg Kretschmar -- The poor with no voice and no power / D.S. Amalorpavadass -- The church of Christendom in the face of new cultures / Mushete Ngindu -- Women and men in the creation narratives and in the church / Kari Elisabeth Børresen -- Social de-personalisation and prayer / Frei Betto -- Receiving Vatican II in a changed historical context / Antonio Acerbi -- Statistical data, projections, and interpretations relating to the numerical composition of the Catholic Church / Gabriel Marc -- The current state of ecclesiology / Severino Dianich.