Response of André VAN DEN BRONK, the bishop of Kumasi, Ghana, to Vatican II’s Antepreparatory Commission

Eminence,

Ci-joint veuillez trouver les voeux qu’en réponse à l’appel du Saint Père je désire soumettre, hélas bien tardivement.

Veuillez avoir l’obligeance de les accepter encore si vous les jugez utiles.

Daigne Votre Eminence m’excuser et agréer l’expression de mes sentiments respectueusement dévoués

🜊 ANDRÉ VAN DEN BRONK
Evêque de Kumasi

Eminence,

Please find attached the wishes that, in response to the Holy Father’s appeal, I desire to submit, alas very tardily.

Please kindly accept them still if you consider them useful.

May Your Eminence deign to excuse me and to accept the expression of my respectfully devoted sentiments

🜊 ANDRÉ VAN DEN BRONK
Bishop of Kumasi

Ut doctrina Ecclesiae attentis novissimis theologorum laboribus fusius expoliata a S. Concilio plenius definiatur.

Ut Commissio summa auctoritate praedita ac S. Congregationi pro Ecclesia Orientali adiuncta instituatur, quae, studiis tam dogmaticis quam oecumenico-pastoralibus omnibus coordinatis, Ecclesiam Occidentalem ad ad unionem aptius praeparet: unitatem Occidentalem inter et Orientalem Ecclesiam omnino perficiat atque communitates Christum quocumque modo profitentes ad unitatem adducere conetur.

🜊 ANDREAS VAN DEN BRONK
Episcopus Kumasiensis

That the doctrine of the Church, having been more extensively elaborated by taking into account the latest works of theologians, may be more fully defined by the Sacred Council.

That a Commission endowed with supreme authority and attached to the Sacred Congregation for the Eastern Church be established, which, by coordinating both all dogmatic and ecumenical-pastoral studies, may more aptly prepare the Western Church for union: may it completely accomplish the unity between the Western and the Eastern Church and may it endeavour to lead communities professing Christ in any way to unity.

🜊 ANDRÉ VAN DEN BRONK
Bishop of Kumasi