Each has positive and negative effects. Fragmentation awakens liberating self-awareness in indigenous and other minority groups but also stimulates tragic and violent separatist conflicts between cultural minorities. Within this context the report holds up special concerns of women, youth and the poor as they exist in the interstices between global economic forces, the media, technology, science and religion. It rejects lay presidency and affirms the diaconate as a distinct order. It upholds the centrality of scripture while acknowledging and honouring differing approaches to scriptural interpretation.
Worship is held to be so central that liturgy is addressed with a statement appended to the report.
It affirms a standard of loving faithfulness in marriage, family and sexual relations, urges that men be supported in renewing their parental and family commitments, and calls for the gifts of girls and women to be upheld in family, work and ministry.