A Constitutional American Church?
Two provocative speeches presented by Leonard Swidler, Professor at Temple University, and a member of the ACC Planning Committee. These were presented in June 2010 at the European conference of International Movement We Are Church. IMWAC has endorsed ACC and plans to send a visiting delegation to the Council in 2011–on the road to a similar worldwide lay-called council planned for the Vatican in 2015.
Constitutional Catholicism
Democracy in the Catholic Church

Articles/Canon Law References
Our partners, Elephants in the Living Room and Future Church have made their resource materials available to ACC.  You may download, reprint and use these materials as required.

Articles: Robert Blair Kaiser on Vatican II
A 2010 retrospective edit of a classic essay written by this famous journalist who covered the event and the Vatican during this period–who has reconsidered some of his conclusions and predictions.

AARC Letter to Anglicans
We, the Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church (ARCC), wish to extend a warm welcome to our brothers and sisters of the Anglican/Episcopal communion who are clergy and spouses, as well as laity, discerning the call to become members of the Roman Catholic Church under the recently announced Apostolic Constitution.

Catholic Leadership for the 21st Century
We are already several years into the 21st century, and yet the Catholic Church is more like 1960 Catholicism than 1965 Catholicism.

Catholic Rights
Our partner ARCC has prepared a number of documents that are relevant to our work.  They have given advance approval to download, copy and/or distribute these works in English and Spanish.  The first resource on the list takes you to the ARCC website which has additional materials.

Catholic Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
To be human is to have rights.  These rights are not earned or given.  They belong to the very fact of our existence.  Life is one of these; freedom, another.

Creed
From the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World, Vatican II

Definition
We are often asked what we mean by “Catholic” in American Catholic Council—and what it means to be a “Catholic” who is included in membership in ACC. This definition was adopted by the Planning Committee on May 1, 2009.

Dialogue
Dialogue is central to the process of the ACC Listening Assemblies and the processes building toward Detroit. See some helpful resources in understanding how Dialogue can be a vehicle for the Holy Spirit to manifest herself in the emerging “sensus fidelium.”

Election of Bishops?
An Article by Joseph O’Callaghan, Professor Emeritus at Fordham University, covering the history and possibilities for this important potential reform in the Church. The Article was the theological underpinning for a request sent by Voice of the Faithful to the Vatican and the USCCB requesting consideration of this.

Membership
A statement of our policy on membership and communications.

Prayer
Prayer from the Vatican II

On Detroit
David O’Brien, PhD., Professor of Roman Catholic Studies at Holy Cross and historian of contemporary American Catholicism prepared the following manuscript in 1977 for a book on the history of contemporary American Catholicism.