- With emphasis on better prepared and delivered homilies (135-159),
- And expanded roles for women who are recognized as generally more sensitive, intuitive, and otherwise skilled than men (103, 104),
- Along with outreach to Christians of other denominations who share unity with Catholics on many fronts (246)
And whereas
- The pope identifies the struggle for social justice and participation in political life as "a moral obligation" that is "inescapable" (220, 258),
- And sees "each and every human right" [including education, health care, and "above all" employment and a just wage (192)] as intimately connected with "defense of unborn life" (213),
- While completely rejecting war as incapable of combatting violence which is caused by "exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples" (59),
- And by unfettered markets and their "trickle-down" ideologies which are homicidal (53), ineffective (54) and unjust at their roots (59),
And whereas,
- The pope's call to change is addressed to everyone (not primarily to pastors and bishops) (33),
- And since responses must be governed by the principle of decentralization (16, 32),
- And are (under this principle) to issue mainly from parishes (not in Rome or the diocesan chancery) because of parishes' highly flexible character and sensitivity to the needs of the local people (28),
- Whose inventiveness is limited by little more than the openness and creativity of the pastor and the local community (28),
- Who are instructed to act boldly, and without inhibition or fear (33),
- In implementing processes of reform (30) adapted to particular churches (82),
- Whose initiatives are to be respected by local bishops (31),
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