Chapter, Paragraph
1 Intro, 1 | 18,20,21; Acts 1:8). ~The Church's universal mission is born
2 Intro, 1 | holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism
3 Intro, 2 | course of the centuries, the Church has proclaimed and witnessed
4 Intro, 2 | evangelizing mission of the Church, above all in connection
5 Intro, 2 | Declaration on the relation of the Church to non-Christian religions
6 Intro, 2 | religions states: "The Catholic Church rejects nothing of what
7 Intro, 2 | this line of thought, the Church's proclamation of Jesus
8 Intro, 2 | dialogue, which is part of the Church's evangelizing mission,6
9 Intro, 3 | of Jesus Christ and the Church, nor to propose solutions
10 Intro, 3 | truths that are part of the Church's faith. ~
11 Intro, 4 | 4. The Church's constant missionary proclamation
12 Intro, 4 | salvific mediation of the Church, the inseparability — while
13 Intro, 4 | kingdom of Christ, and the Church, and the subsistence of
14 Intro, 4 | the subsistence of the one Church of Christ in the Catholic
15 Intro, 4 | of Christ in the Catholic Church. ~The roots of these problems
16 Intro, 4 | Tradition and Magisterium of the Church. ~On the basis of such presuppositions,
17 Intro, 4 | of Jesus Christ and the Church lose their character of
18 1, 5 | Redemptoris missio calls the Church once again to the task of
19 1, 5 | fundamental reason why the Church is missionary by her very
20 1, 6 | religions, is contrary to the Church's faith. Such a position
21 1, 6 | through them, to the whole Church. ~
22 1, 7(17) | Catechism of the Catholic Church, 144. ~
23 1, 8 | enlightens all men".23 ~The Church's tradition, however, reserves
24 1, 8 | states: "For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of
25 1, 8 | handed on as such to the Church herself".25 These books "
26 2, 9 | is valid also outside the Church and is unrelated to her,
27 2, 10 | teachings of the Fathers of the Church, the Council of Chalcedon
28 2, 11 | glorified" (Rom 8:29-30). ~The Church's Magisterium, faithful
29 2, 12 | the consciousness of the Church's faith this fundamental
30 2, 12 | entire work of building the Church by Jesus Christ the Head,
31 2, 12 | visible boundaries of the Church to all humanity. Speaking
32 2, 12(36)| wrote that it is in the Church "that communion with Christ
33 2, 12 | recent Magisterium of the Church has firmly and clearly recalled
34 2, 12 | and who is at work in the Church. He is therefore not an
35 3, 13 | constant element of the Church's faith. ~The New Testament
36 3, 13 | recalled recently by the Church's Magisterium: "The Church
37 3, 13 | Church's Magisterium: "The Church believes that Christ, who
38 3, 13 | saved (cf. Acts 4:12). The Church likewise believes that the
39 3, 14 | under the guidance of the Church's Magisterium. The Second
40 4 | UNICITY AND UNITY OF THE CHURCH~
41 4, 16 | disciples, but constituted the Church as a salvific mystery: he
42 4, 16 | mystery: he himself is in the Church and the Church is in him (
43 4, 16 | is in the Church and the Church is in him (cf. Jn 15:1ff.;
44 4, 16 | mystery belongs also to the Church, inseparably united to her
45 4, 16 | work of salvation in the Church and by means of the Church (
46 4, 16 | Church and by means of the Church (cf. Col 1:24-27),47 which
47 4, 16 | inseparable, so too Christ and the Church can neither be confused
48 4, 16 | Testament by the analogy of the Church as the Bride of Christ (
49 4, 16 | Christ, the unicity of the Church founded by him must be firmly
50 4, 16 | single Catholic and apostolic Church".51 Furthermore, the promises
51 4, 16 | he would not abandon his Church (cf. Mt 16:18; 28:20) and
52 4, 16 | unicity and the unity of the Church — like everything that belongs
53 4, 16 | everything that belongs to the Church's integrity — will never
54 4, 16 | succession53 — between the Church founded by Christ and the
55 4, 16 | Christ and the Catholic Church: "This is the single Church
56 4, 16 | Church: "This is the single Church of Christ... which our Saviour,
57 4, 16 | truth' (1 Tim 3:15). This Church, constituted and organized
58 4, 16 | subsistit in] the Catholic Church, governed by the Successor
59 4, 16 | on the one hand, that the Church of Christ, despite the divisions
60 4, 16 | fully only in the Catholic Church, and on the other hand,
61 4, 16 | communion with the Catholic Church.56 But with respect to these,
62 4, 16 | entrusted to the Catholic Church".57 ~
63 4, 16(56)| the thesis that the one Church of Christ could subsist
64 4, 16(56)| subsistence' of the true Church, while outside her visible
65 4, 16(56)| being elements of that same Church — tend and lead toward the
66 4, 16(56)| lead toward the Catholic Church" (Congregation for the Doctrine
67 4, 16(56)| Notification on the Book "Church: Charism and Power" by Father
68 4, 17 | Therefore, there exists a single Church of Christ, which subsists
69 4, 17 | subsists in the Catholic Church, governed by the Successor
70 4, 17 | communion with the Catholic Church, remain united to her by
71 4, 17 | Churches.59 Therefore, the Church of Christ is present and
72 4, 17 | communion with the Catholic Church, since they do not accept
73 4, 17 | exercises over the entire Church.60 ~On the other hand, the
74 4, 17 | albeit imperfect, with the Church.62 Baptism in fact tends
75 4, 17 | and full communion in the Church.63 ~"The Christian faithful
76 4, 17 | permitted to imagine that the Church of Christ is nothing more
77 4, 17 | free to hold that today the Church of Christ nowhere really
78 4, 17 | elements of this already-given Church exist, joined together in
79 4, 17 | fullness in the Catholic Church and, without this fullness,
80 4, 17 | entrusted to the Catholic Church".66 ~The lack of unity among
81 4, 17 | certainly a wound for the Church; not in the sense that she
82 5 | V. THE CHURCH: KINGDOM OF GOD AND KINGDOM
83 5, 18 | 18. The mission of the Church is "to proclaim and establish
84 5, 18 | On the one hand, the Church is "a sacrament — that is,
85 5, 18 | On the other hand, the Church is the "people gathered
86 5, 18 | Scripture and the Fathers of the Church, as well as in the documents
87 5, 18 | their relationship to the Church, which is a mystery that
88 5, 18 | Christ, the kingdom, and the Church. In fact, the kingdom of
89 5, 18 | from Christ or from the Church... If the kingdom is separated
90 5, 18 | separate the kingdom from the Church. It is true that the Church
91 5, 18 | Church. It is true that the Church is not an end unto herself,
92 5, 18 | Christ and the kingdom, the Church is indissolubly united to
93 5, 18(72)| 4: SC 248, 176: "May the Church be gathered from the ends
94 5, 18(72)| 180: "Remember, Lord, your Church... and, made holy, gather
95 5, 19 | not identified with the Church in her visible and social
96 5, 19 | and the Spirit outside the Church's visible boundaries" must
97 5, 19 | kingdom of Christ, and the Church, it is necessary to avoid
98 5, 19 | They stress the image of a Church which is not concerned about
99 5, 19 | serving the kingdom. It is a ‘Church for others,' just as Christ
100 5, 19 | very little room for the Church or undervaluing the Church
101 5, 19 | Church or undervaluing the Church in reaction to a presumed ‘
102 5, 19 | because they consider the Church herself only a sign, for
103 5, 19 | relationship which Christ and the Church have with the kingdom of
104 6 | VI. THE CHURCH AND THE OTHER RELIGIONS
105 6, 20 | the relationship of the Church and the other religions
106 6, 20 | firmly believed that "the Church, a pilgrim now on earth,
107 6, 20 | in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted
108 6, 20 | time the necessity of the Church which men enter through
109 6, 20 | and the necessity of the Church for this salvation".78 ~
110 6, 20 | this salvation".78 ~The Church is the "universal sacrament
111 6, 20(78)| Catechism of the Catholic Church, 846-847. ~
112 6, 20 | and visibly members of the Church, "salvation in Christ is
113 6, 20 | mysterious relationship to the Church, does not make them formally
114 6, 20 | them formally part of the Church, but enlightens them in
115 6, 20 | a relationship with the Church, which "according to the
116 6, 21 | mysterious relationship to the Church — comes to individual non-Christians,
117 6, 21 | relationship"84 which the Church has with the kingdom of
118 6, 21 | the faith to consider the Church as one way of salvation
119 6, 21 | as complementary to the Church or substantially equivalent
120 6, 21 | to be converging with the Church toward the eschatological
121 6, 21(85)| semina Verbi), which the Church recognizes with joy and
122 6, 21(87)| Catechism of the Catholic Church, 843. ~
123 6, 22 | God has willed that the Church founded by him be the instrument
124 6, 22 | sincere respect which the Church has for the religions of
125 6, 22 | comparison with those who, in the Church, have the fullness of the
126 6, 22 | all the children of the Church should nevertheless remember
127 6, 22 | love for all people, the Church "proclaims and is in duty
128 6, 22 | way of salvation. But the Church, to whom this truth has
129 6, 22 | universal plan of salvation, the Church must be missionary".96 Inter-religious
130 6, 22 | one of the actions of the Church in her mission ad gentes.97
131 6, 22(96)| Catechism of the Catholic Church, 851; cf. also 849-856. ~
132 6, 22 | other religions. Indeed, the Church, guided by charity and respect
133 6, 22 | and of adherence to the Church through Baptism and the
134 End, 23 | called to reconfirm the Church's faith and to give reasons
135 End, 23 | the Catholic and Apostolic Church, to which the Lord Jesus
136 End, 23 | that concern God and his Church, all persons are required
137 End, 23 | unity is so deep that the Church can say with Saint Paul: ‘
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