The Catholic Church has a tradition of bridgebuilding one founded on Christ and that began with the Apostle St. John and the convert St. Paul. It helped bridge the Hebrew Greek and Roman worlds. Later it helped civilize the tribes that overran Europe. Limits appeared in the Churchs bridgebuilding ability when Europe was confronted with Islam and later with the secular mentality that arose in Western Europe as well as in its encounters with China India and Africa.Steps Toward Vatican III examines the present dilemmas facing the Church and humanity in an age of globalization that daily brings people of various backgrounds into close proximity. It offers a middleway to face such issues. It develops a global ethics and a global spirituality that can be incarnated within alert loving small Christian communities as well as in the larger Church structures directed from the Vatican. It builds on Vatican II to find paths that may help bring peace and understanding in the world by a sympathetic evaluation of different world traditions. Such sympathy must be informed by the conversions that Jesus and the Church have demanded of their followers.