The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission met for the first time in January 1970, and published its Final Report in 1981.
"From the beginning we were determined, in accordance with our mandate, and in the spirit of Philippians 3:13, ‘forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead', to discover each other's faith as it is today and to appeal to history only for enlightenment, not as a way of perpetuating past controversy."