The third Anglican-Catholic International Commission has concluded its work with the approval of a common declaration

Members of the third Anglican-Catholic International Commission, known as ARCIC III, approved a text titled While They Were Talking and Discussing: Leaning to Do Moral Discernment in Communion. This declaration concludes a mandate assigned by Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop Rowan Williams to study the Church as a local and universal communion and how such communion discerns ethical teaching.

The document was developed in stages following a plenary session in Melbourne, Australia, in October 2025. An editorial subcommittee worked to complete the text, which serves as an addition to the commission's 2018 publication, Camminare insieme sulla strada: imparare ad essere la Chiesa – locale, regionale e universale.

The declaration consists of an introduction and four chapters covering the challenge of moral discernment in communion, the path already traveled, sharing moral discernment, and cases of moral discernment and ecclesial wounds. The text will be evaluated before its official publication in the coming months, which will include an official Roman Catholic commentary.