9. Joint projects, undertaken when this seems opportune, have as their aim to allow Christians to give a common witness to Christ. It is not their purpose to weaken the authenticity of the Christian and ecclesial message, or to limit any specifically Catholic initiative. ⁴

-There already exist the formulas of the ecumenical jury (e.g., those of Cannes, Locarno, Montreal, Berlin...), of the ecumenical television week (sponsored by UNDA, the international Catholic organization for radio and television, and WACC, the World Association of Christian Communicators), of ecumenical publications on communications (Comunicación), of joint meetings (Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada-Associated Church Press, USA), of ecumenical foundations (Interfaith Media Foundation), of reciprocal consultations, of mutual financial aid, of common promotion and consultation with secular networks. It is important to discern the value of such initiatives and to see what further forms of common ecumenical projects there can be. Those common ecumenical projects which have precise and concrete themes will be all the more useful.