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01-July-1996 
 
GA96047 
 
Committee to consider COCU Tuesday morning 
 
ALBUQUERQUE--The Assembly committee on Catholicity is scheduled to consider 
its response to the Consultation on Church Union (COCU) proposal during its 
opening session starting at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday. 
 
    The committee will be considering constitutional amendments which would 
enable the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s participating in COCU. A set of 
similar amendments was presented to the 207th (1995) General Assembly, but 
was sent back to the special committee on COCU for more work. 
 
    The Catholicity committee has already spent many hours listening to 
background on the issue. They also spent an hour Sunday evening listening 
to ten proponents and ten opponents of the COCU proposals. 
 
    The committee also met in joint session with the Assembly committee on 
Church Orders Monday afternoon to hear presentations on COCU, the ongoing 
review of  "A Proposal for Considering the Theology and Practice of 
Ordination in the PC(USA)," and the proposal to broaden the roles of 
commissioned lay pastors. 
 
    Maria Price, chair of the Catholicity committee, noted that there was 
the potential for conflict between the two committee's reports and that was 
the reason for the joint session. 
 
 
John Sniffen 

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