The meaning of democracy today / Kurt Tudyka -- Ecclesiology and democracy: convergences and divergences / Giuseppe Alberigo -- A consecrated hierarchy - an obstacle to a democratizing of the Catholic church / Willy Obrist -- Reception, consensus and church law / Geoffrey King -- Democracy in the Jesuit order? / Peter Huizing, SJ -- Democracy in Dominican government / Patricia Walter, OP -- Synodality in the Eastern Catholic churches according to the new code / George Nedungatt, SJ -- Experiences of national synods in Europe after the council / Bernard Franck -- Basic church structures - consolidation or crisis? new church structures without official recognition / Berma Klein Goldewijk -- The Dumont report / Gregory Baum -- Democracy and Charisma: reflection on the democratization of the church / Miroslav Volf -- Indigenous African churches and the quest for democracy / Michel Legrain -- Prospects for a more 'democratized' church / James Provost.