id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195447 Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Ecumenical collaboration at the regional, national, and local levels 1975 .txt text/plain 11602 450 46 In this way the bonds of fraternal communion with other local churches will be manifested and the role of the Church of Rome serving the unity of all will be evident. The importance of local ecumenism derives from the significance of local churches in the Catholic Church as set forth in Vatican Council II: “A diocese is part of the People of God entrusted to a Bishop, to be cared for with the cooperation of his priests, so that in close union with its pastor, and by him gathered together in the Holy Spirit through the Gospel and the Eucharist, it constitutes a particular Church, in which is truly present and operative the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ” {Christus Dominus, 11). cache/_005195447.txt txt/_005195447.txt