The Dialogue

I received the following notice in an email from NCCL President Mary Ann Ronan.
Mary Ann said,

After sharing respective organizational values and identifying other important issues, the boards moved to establish a planning committee of two persons from each organization, assisted by up to two outside helper/facilitators. The boards stipulated that the planning committee would be in place by the end of April and would submit a design recommendation to their respective executive committees by September. If the design is acceptable to the executive committees, it would then go to the full boards at their fall meetings for consideration and possible further action.

A Statement on the Meeting of NCEA and NCCL Boards of Directors

On March 19, 2007, the boards of directors of NCEA and NCCL met together at the offices of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, DC, at the invitation of Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl in his capacity as Chair of the USCCB Committee on Catechesis. Archbishop Wuerl envisioned the event as a catalyst in the organizations? ongoing dialogue process to resolve issues of overlapping missions, membership and services.

Archbishop Wuerl identified two major outcomes for the meeting. First, each board would identify and share values that it deemed constitutive to any new entity that might emerge out of the dialogue process. Second, the boards would establish a joint planning committee to try and conceptualize a new organization that could serve both parish-based and school-based catechetical leaders more effectively than the current two-organization arrangement.

After sharing respective organizational values and identifying other important issues, the boards moved to establish a planning committee of two persons from each organization, assisted by up to two outside helper/facilitators. The boards stipulated that the planning committee would be in place by the end of April and would submit a design recommendation to their respective executive committees by September. If the design is acceptable to the executive committees, it would then go to the full boards at their fall meetings for consideration and possible further action.

Karen Ristau Neil Parent
President, NCEA Executive Director, NCCL

March 30, 2007

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