I believe it is too ambitious to succeed. Next, let's try to summarize the strengths and weaknesses of the Comprehensive Planning Model. This is the model that regards the council, not as a coordinator of parish ministries, but as a parish planning body that draws its planning themes from the diocese. This is a noble, unified, and catholic model. In it, the bishop articulates a vision.
Parishes apply that vision at the local level.
The Comprehensive Planning Model avoids the adversarial relations to which the Council of Ministries is heir. It does so by clearly maintaining the council's consultative identity. The pastor consults the council, but does not require that it direct a system of standing committees. The council plans, the pastor and his staff implement with the help of volunteers. Implementation is not the council's responsibility.