Catholic Common Ground Initiative

The Catholic Common Ground Initiative is an intra-ecclesial relations effort launched in 1996 by the National Pastoral Life Center.

Philip J. Murnion, of the Archdiocese of New York, with the help of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops "to study and advance the development of parish ministry in a changing U.S.

[citation needed] Catherine Patten, RSHM was the coordinator of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative at the National Pastoral Life Center in New York since its beginning in 1996.

[9] The Catholic Common Ground Intitiative has partnered with St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana since the Spring of 2001.

[6] The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago sponsors an annual "Cardinal Bernardin Common Cause Lecture".