Mariology has an important contribution to make to the wholeness of the Church but our traditional interpretation of images will no longer do. What we say about her indicates something of how we perceive ourselves and what we convey of that to others. She then becomes a statement for each of us of what it means to be woman and man in a shared and redeemed humanity, of what it means to be the Church. Jeffrey Heskins is Vicar of St Nicholas, Kidbrooke, London. In The Catholic Faith L. Cunningham ed.
Most dioceses have their own local groups to undertake similar projects themselves.