Chapter, §
1 Note | study of the topic “The Church and the Faults of the Past”
2 Intro | in this year of mercy the Church, strong in the holiness
3 Intro | both inside and outside the Church. Many have noted the increased
4 Intro | sons and daughters of the Church may look like acquiescence
5 Intro | prejudicially hostile to the Church. Between agreement and unease,
6 Intro | effects on the life of the Church and on society? The purpose
7 Intro | when the text speaks of the Church: it is not a question of
8 Intro | illumined by faith. The Church is understood as the community
9 Intro | Second Vatican Council, the Church “by a strong analogy is
10 Intro | social structure of the Church is at the service of the
11 Intro (2)| Pope has indicated to the Church the path forward for purifying
12 Intro | body” (cf. Eph 4:16).3 This Church, which embraces her sons
13 Intro | specific value for the Catholic Church, are dedicated to the moral (
14 Intro | of value for the Catholic Church, which is thus helped to
15 1, 1 | always been lived in the Church as a time of joy for the
16 1, 1 | pardon and grace,”5 the Church dispenses in a particular
17 1, 1 | conscience of any faults in the Church’s past, nor of the need
18 1, 1 | the entire history of the Church there are no precedents
19 1 (6) | Clement VI sees in the Church’s Jubilee “the spiritual
20 1, 1 | offended “by us” (the Catholic Church), and declared himself ready
21 1, 2 | indefectible fidelity of the Church and the weaknesses of her
22 1, 2 | in the Holy Spirit. “The Church, embracing sinners in her
23 1 (13) | 6: “Christ summons the Church, as she goes her pilgrim
24 1, 2 | communion with the Catholic Church – at times not without the
25 1, 2 | Christ, and the Catholic Church embraces them with fraternal
26 1, 2 | faithful of the Catholic Church.17 As in its origin, the
27 1, 2 | sacramental economy of the Church.~
28 1, 3 | historical events in which the Church, or individual groups of
29 1, 3 | purification of the memory of the Church from all forms of “counter-witness
30 1, 3 | the past millennium.21~The Church is invited to “become more
31 1, 3 | on the solidarity of the Church of today with past faults.
32 1, 3 | though it wounds the entire Church, which, represented by the
33 1 (26) | where it is said that the Church “before God and man” acknowledges
34 1, 4 | The Questions Raised~The Church is a living society spanning
35 1, 4 | lived. In large part, the Church’s past structures her present.
36 1, 4 | become an obstacle to the Church’s witness today, and the
37 1, 4 | of the past faults of the Church’s sons and daughters of
38 1, 4 | attributed to members of the Church as believers from that which
39 1, 4 | between the action of the Church as community of faith and
40 1, 4 | circles as signs of the Church’s vitality and authenticity,
41 1, 4 | right, moreover, that the Church contribute to changing false
42 1, 4 | both inside and outside the Church. Heads of state or government,
43 1, 4 | and their loyalty to the Church seems shaken. Some wonder
44 1, 4 | can hand on a love for the Church to younger generations if
45 1, 4 | generations if this same Church is imputed with crimes and
46 1, 4 | and is exploited by the Church’s detractors, who are satisfied
47 1, 4 | are satisfied to see the Church confirm the prejudices they
48 1, 4 | times. Others hold that the Church could purify her memory
49 1, 4 | imputable to the children of the Church. Finally, it is to be expected
50 1, 4 | can never mean that the Church ceases to proclaim the revealed
51 1, 4 | transmission in the faith of the Church. The first question is therefore
52 2 | Paul II’s invitation to the Church to confess the faults of
53 2 (30) | Interpretation of the Bible in the Church, Pontifical Biblical Commission (
54 2, 1 | committed by their fathers. The Church imitates their example and
55 2, 2 | indication that the early Church turned her attention to
56 2, 2 | Christ shows how the early Church had an acute awareness of
57 2, 4 | Paul II’s appeal to the Church to mark the Jubilee Year
58 2, 4 | Jubilee celebration of his Church. In addition, this singular
59 3 | Christianity draws to a close the Church should become ever more
60 3 | incorporation into Christ, the Church does not tire of doing penance.
61 3 | Paul II emphasize how the Church is touched by the sin of
62 3 | self-awareness in time, the Church knows that she is not only
63 3 | reason one can say that the Church – one in time and space
64 3 (41) | historical periods reproached the Church for her faults. Among these,
65 3 | characteristic of the mystery of the Church, that the question arises
66 3 | aspects: on the one hand, the Church’s affirmation in faith of
67 3, 1 | 3.1. The Mystery of the Church~“The Church is in history,
68 3, 1 | Mystery of the Church~“The Church is in history, but at the
69 3 (43) | Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), 770.~
70 3, 1 | power of this communion, the Church presents herself as a subject
71 3, 1 | people (cf. Heb 2:17). The Church, however, embracing sinners
72 3, 1 | others: “All members of the Church, including her ministers,
73 3, 1 | Mt 13:24-30). Hence the Church gathers sinners already
74 3, 1 | solemnly affirmed that the Church “is holy, though she includes
75 3, 1 | the Holy Spirit.”47 The Church in her “mystery” is thus
76 3, 1 | look upon the faith of his church and not on the sins of individuals,
77 3, 1 | unity of the mystery of the Church through time and space,
78 3, 1 | in the actions of Mother Church.~
79 3, 2 | 3.2. The Holiness of the Church~The Church is holy because,
80 3, 2 | Holiness of the Church~The Church is holy because, sanctified
81 3, 2 | unceasingly: “We believe that the Church…is indefectibly holy. For
82 3, 2 | alone holy,’ loved the Church as his bride and gave himself
83 3, 2 | reason, everyone in the Church…is called to holiness.”48
84 3, 2 | beginning, the members of the Church are called the “saints” (
85 3, 2 | however, the holiness of the Church from holiness in the Church.
86 3, 2 | Church from holiness in the Church. The former - founded on
87 3, 2 | it is holiness “in the Church” oriented towards the good
88 3, 2 | of all. ~Holiness in the Church must therefore correspond
89 3, 2 | correspond to the holiness of the Church. “The followers of Christ,
90 3, 2 | Lord in the midst of his Church in order to illuminate her;
91 3, 3 | in the People of God. The Church on earth is “marked with
92 3, 3 | against the Pelagians: “The Church as a whole says: Forgive
93 3, 3 | blemishes washed clean. The Church stands in prayer in order
94 3, 3 | time; in the meantime, the Church still on pilgrimage should
95 3, 3 | without sin: “To be a glorious Church, with neither spot nor wrinkle,
96 3, 3 | Hence it is the entire Church that confesses her faith
97 3, 3 | sense, truly touches the Church in her entirety, across
98 3, 3 | not become a wound of the Church.”54 The Church therefore, “
99 3, 3 | wound of the Church.”54 The Church therefore, “although she
100 3 (54) | the wound inflicted on the Church by the sins of her children.~
101 3, 4 | 4. The Motherhood of the Church~The conviction that the
102 3, 4 | The conviction that the Church can make herself responsible
103 3, 4 | way in the idea of “Mother Church” (“Mater Ecclesia”), which “
104 3, 4 | the early Fathers of the Church sums up the entire Christian
105 3, 4 | Christian aspiration.”56 The Church, Vatican II affirms, “by
106 3, 4 | father who doesn’t have the Church as a mother.”59 And Paulinus
107 3, 4 | of the motherhood of the Church like this: “As a mother
108 3, 4 | According to this vision, the Church is continually realized
109 3, 4 | same time a child of the Church, in that he is generated
110 3, 4 | divine life, and Mother Church, in that, by his faith and
111 3, 4 | He is ever more Mother Church, the greater is his holiness
112 3, 4 | cease to be a child of the Church when, because of sin, he
113 3, 4 | entire community of Mother Church. The Church, in turn, as
114 3, 4 | community of Mother Church. The Church, in turn, as a true Mother,
115 3, 4 | seen by the Fathers of the Church to be the Mother of sorrows,
116 3, 4 | Holiness and sin in the Church are reflected therefore
117 3, 4 | their effects on the entire Church, although it is a conviction
118 3, 4 | good! In this sense the Church recognizes herself to be
119 3, 4 | For this reason, the holy Church recognizes the duty “to
120 3, 4 | forgiveness. For the entire Church, one in time and space,
121 3, 4 | unity, the Bishop of the Church “which presides in love,”62
122 3, 4 | came from him that “the Church should become more fully
123 4 | if it cannot, whether the Church’s sons and daughters who
124 4 | Gospel in the name of the Church by certain of her sons and
125 4 | have significance for the Church of today to make amends
126 4 | Inquisition, stated: “The Church’s Magisterium certainly
127 4, 2 | cultural times within which the Church acts are different, and
128 4, 2 | account the fact that the Church’s request for forgiveness
129 4, 2 | theological subject of the Church in the variety of ways and
130 4, 2 | appropriate subject (universal Church, Bishops of a country, particular
131 4, 2 | which is revelation. The Church - by virtue of the communion
132 4, 2 | believers recognizes in the Church’s past a very particular
133 4, 2 | hermeneutic horizon and the Church as interpreting agent exposes
134 4, 2 | involved in these texts, the Church. This guards against all
135 4, 2 | factors does not exonerate the Church from the obligation to express
136 4, 2 | and daughters...”67 The Church is “not afraid of the truth
137 5 | Discernment~In order for the Church carry out an appropriate
138 5, 1 | particular, between the Church and the different religious,
139 5, 1 | for the entire life of the Church, are the reception of the
140 5, 1 | to which everyone in the Church is invited to be open and
141 5, 1 | each human act, even if the Church, like Jesus, can and must
142 5, 1 | sort of osmosis between Church and State, between faith
143 5, 1 | needs to be lived by the Church’s sons and daughters not
144 5, 1 | on attitudes within the Church and civil society should
145 5, 1 | sons and daughters of the Church seems to have contradicted
146 5, 2 | and the structure of the Church.”73 In the schism of the
147 5, 2 | concerned the authority of the Church and the Bishop of Rome,
148 5, 2 | Risen One, the Lord of the Church and of history. It is by
149 5, 2 | offended “by us” (the Catholic Church).74~In 1965, in the climate
150 5, 2 | omnia (1 Pt 4:8) for the Church in the East and in the West.
151 5, 2 | with matters of faith. The Church’s sons and daughters should
152 5, 3 | sons and daughters of the Church must return with a spirit
153 5, 3 | sons and daughters of the Church may have been responsible,
154 5, 4 | examination of conscience.81 “The Church’s relationship to the Jewish
155 5, 4 | Jewish people; that the Church draws sustenance from the
156 6 | the pastoral aims of the Church’s taking responsibility
157 6 | consequences in relation to the Church’s missionary effort and
158 6, 1 | help the community of the Church grow in holiness through
159 6, 1 | deficiencies in moral conduct, in Church discipline, or even in the
160 6, 1 | of Christ concerning the Church, and as required, strenuously
161 6 (93) | that “Christ summons the Church, as she goes her pilgrim
162 6, 1 | be the witness that the Church gives to the God of mercy
163 6, 1 | also the service which the Church in this way gives to humanity
164 6, 1 | above all on the part of the Church today. On the threshold
165 6 (95) | 6: “Every renewal of the Church consists essentially in
166 6, 2 | implications for the life of the Church of an ecclesial request
167 6, 2 | to certain aspects of the Church’s statements. One should
168 6, 2 | Magisterium and authority in the Church. Not every act of authority
169 6, 2 | assured by the Lord to the Church’s Bishops, and consequently
170 6, 2 | outside the community of the Church – must be identified with
171 6, 2 | love for the truth of the Church’s sons and daughters. This
172 6, 3 | foreseeable implications of the Church’s acknowledgement of past
173 6, 3 | varied.~On the level of the Church’s missionary effort, it
174 6, 3 | acts, those involved in the Church’s mission ad gentes should
175 6, 3 | aspects of the history of the Church in Europe may well turn
176 6, 3 | believers in Christ, the Church’s recognition of past wrongs
177 6, 3 | dialogue. In every case, the Church’s taking responsibility
178 6, 3 | act of repentance by the Church: on the one hand, negative
179 6, 3 | the difference between the Church as a mystery of grace and
180 6, 3 | character of exemplarity of the Church’s requests for forgiveness,
181 6, 3 | concerns the life of the Church, her mission of proclaiming
182 6, 3 | the Gospel, by which the Church lives, also have the capacity,
183 6, 3 | reconciliation exemplified by the Church and will make every effort
184 End | gesture connected with it, the Church addresses herself in the
185 End | By such actions, the Church also gives witness to her
186 End | responsibility to Truth, the Church “cannot cross the threshold
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