Catholic ministry leaders detailed lifelong learning, collaborative ministry, solid formation and a greater need to encourage diverse leadership as crucial to the further growth of a healthy church on the last day of an unprecedented summit meeting.

"Emerging models require an emerging vision of leadership," Dr. Robert McCarty of the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry said April 23, near the close of A National Ministry Summit: Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership, which attracted about 1,200 lay ministers, religious sisters and brothers and clergymen. "What a blessing it is to be in this church at this time." Read more.