Chapter, Paragraph
1 Intro,1 | for this immense gift, the Church in America has recently
2 Intro,1 | gathering them into his Church, he might be present in
3 Intro,1 | have been generated by the Church and the Holy Spirit.(1)
4 Intro,1 | command applies to the whole Church; and, in this moment of
5 Intro,1 | moment of her history, the Church in America is called to
6 Intro,1 | approaching Jubilee, when the Church will celebrate the two thousandth
7 Intro,1 | gifts received, the pilgrim Church in America wishes to bring
8 Intro,3 | present in the life of the Church and calling people to conversion,
9 Intro,3 | pastoral goals which the Church in America must attain in
10 Intro,4 | of Peter, and serving the Church as she makes her pilgrim
11 Intro,4 | when the Pastors of the Church in Latin America were able
12 Intro,4 | and challenges facing the Church in the countries of America.~
13 Intro,5 | barriers have fallen, the Church feels absolutely duty-bound
14 Intro,5 | mission which is proper to the Church, to stir among these peoples
15 Intro,5 | continent seek and which the Church wishes to foster as part
16 Intro,6 | on American soil. As the Church throughout America prepared
17 Intro,6 | Later, I invited the whole Church to respond to this call,
18 Intro,7 | the Risen Lord left to his Church there goes the certitude,
19 Intro,7 | presence of Christ in his Church is the sure guarantee that
20 Intro,7 | sure guarantee that the Church will succeed in accomplishing
21 Intro,7 | make all the members of the Church in America aware that they
22 Intro,7 | also bring a renewal of the Church: as sisters and neighbors
23 I,8 | Eucharistic meaning for the early Church: “He was made known to them
24 I,9 | the constitution of the Church. Indeed, the Apostles, chosen
25 I,9 | mission of building up the Church by the grace of the sacraments.
26 I,10 | Christ in the time of the Church~10. The Church is the place
27 I,10 | time of the Church~10. The Church is the place where men and
28 I,10(16) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
29 I,11 | relation to the pilgrim Church in America journeying towards
30 I,11 | way to the birth of the Church in the history ... of the
31 I,11 | maternal intercession guide the Church in America, obtaining the
32 I,11 | she once did for the early Church (cf. Acts 1:14), so that
33 I,12 | in the help of Mary, the Church in America desires to lead
34 I,12 | for Christ present in his Church become something merely
35 I,12 | places in which, in the Church, it is possible to encounter
36 II,15 | or canonizing them, the Church points to them as powerful
37 II,15(36) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 50.~
38 II,16 | their membership of the Church, increasing the fervor of
39 II,16 | Americans of African origin. The Church “recognizes that it must
40 II,17 | souls”.( 46) The universal Church needs a synergy between
41 II,17 | communion between the Catholic Church and the separated Eastern
42 II,17 | catholicity of the Lord's Church appear more clearly.( 48)~
43 II,18 | The Church in the field of education
44 II,18 | One of the reasons for the Church's influence on the Christian
45 II,18 | are a typical feature of Church life in America. Also in
46 II,18 | important area in which the Church is present in every part
47 II,18 | love for the poor which the Church in America nurtures. She
48 II,18 | which has no limits, the Church in America has been able
49 II,18 | disadvantaged emerges in the Church's social teaching, which
50 II,19 | moral implications. The Church looks sympathetically upon
51 II,19 | democracy. Therefore, the Church must be committed to the
52 II,20 | with globalization, the Church considers with concern the
53 II,21 | great challenges for the Church's pastoral action, which
54 II,21 | formidable challenge for the Church. Just as she was able to
55 II,21 | culture for centuries, the Church is called in the same way
56 III,26 | Christ is the head of the Church, his Mystical Body; it urges
57 III,27 | institutions and groups within the Church”.( 70) “He who does not
58 III,27 | political community and the Church, and to distinguish clearly
59 III,27 | they do in the name of the Church in communion with their
60 III,27 | with their Pastors. The Church which, in virtue of her
61 III,27(73) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 31.~
62 III,27(74) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
63 III,28 | special implications for the Church in America, involved as
64 III,29 | becomes the daily life of the Church community”.( 77) In this
65 III,29 | fundamental mission in the Church in America. As the Second
66 III,29 | they are “a glory of the Church and a source of heavenly
67 III,29 | that they are part of the Church's mission in the present
68 III,29 | seek the counsel of the Church's ministers or of other
69 III,29 | traditional practice in the Church. The Synod Fathers felt
70 III,30 | call to holiness in the Church.( 86) This is one of the
71 III,30 | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church.( 87) Conversion is directed
72 III,31 | the word of God which the Church proclaims in her preaching.
73 III,31 | preaching. Therefore, the Church in America “must give a
74 III,31 | in the tradition of the Church as lectio divina, and it
75 III,32 | always been part of the Church's life and which culminate
76 III,32 | Penance, from which the Church in America is not exempt
77 III,32 | merciful love.~The Catholic Church, which embraces men and
78 III,32 | be ignored and which the Church has the duty to address.
79 III,32 | most important that the Church throughout America be a
80 IV,33 | The Church, sacrament of communion~
81 IV,33 | We must proclaim that the Church is the sign and instrument
82 IV,33 | of the Kingdom”.( 97) The Church is the sign of communion
83 IV,33 | communion, present in the Church and essential to her nature,( 98)
84 IV,33(97) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 2.~
85 IV,33(98) | Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of the Church
86 IV,33(98) | Church on Some Aspects of the Church Understood as Communion
87 IV,33 | the preservation of the Church's unity”, and that “the
88 IV,33 | Peter is fundamental for the Church's identity and vitality
89 IV,33 | the rock upon which the Church is built, and to exercise
90 IV,33 | visible foundation” of the Church. (101)~
91 IV,33(101) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ Pastor Aeternus,
92 IV,34 | Communion of life in the Church comes through the sacraments
93 IV,34 | us into the body of the Church”. (102) In Confirmation,
94 IV,34 | joined more completely to the Church, they are enriched with
95 IV,34(103) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 11.~
96 IV,35 | introduction to the life of the Church and cannot be repeated, (107)
97 IV,35 | entire community of the Church gathers. (108) The various
98 IV,35(108) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 26.~
99 IV,35 | source and summit of the Church's life, the safeguard of
100 IV,35(112) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 10.~
101 IV,35 | vocations. (113) The whole Church in America needs to be reminded
102 IV,35 | was expressed in the early Church by the joining of the agape
103 IV,36 | signifies life, communion in the Church must constantly increase.
104 IV,36 | unity of his particular Church”, (116) cannot but feel
105 IV,36(116) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 23.~
106 IV,36 | involving all the members of the Church and awakening in them a
107 IV,36(117) | Office of Bishops in the Church Christus Dominus, 27; Decree
108 IV,36 | visible expression of the Church's communion, which is formed
109 IV,36 | Pontiff. As a particular Church, the diocese is charged
110 IV,36 | nature of the particular Church is better known and appreciated. (121)~
111 IV,36(120) | Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of the Church
112 IV,36(120) | Church on Some Aspects of the Church Understood as Communion
113 IV,37 | the Lord to the pilgrim Church in America. It strengthened
114 IV,38 | seminarians of the Latin Church include knowledge of the
115 IV,39 | a member of a particular Church, each priest must be a sign
116 IV,40 | lead all the members of the Church in America to recognize
117 IV,40 | Catholic schools and other Church organizations. Bishops and
118 IV,40 | future ministers of the Church to live “a solid spirituality
119 IV,41 | concretely experience the Church. (137) Today in America
120 IV,41 | entire diocesan and universal Church. In such a human context,
121 IV,42 | the hierarchy of the Latin Church, leaving to the Episcopal
122 IV,42(146) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 29; Paul
123 IV,42(148) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 29.~
124 IV,43 | in the various areas of Church life, including decision-making
125 IV,43 | integrated into the particular Church to which they belong, fostering
126 IV,44 | faithful and the renewal of the Church~44. “The teaching of the
127 IV,44 | Council on the unity of the Church as the People of God gathered
128 IV,44 | Christ. The renewal of the Church in America will not be possible
129 IV,44 | responsible for the future of the Church”. (157)~There are two areas
130 IV,44(158) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 31.~
131 IV,44 | presence and mission of the Church in the world is realized
132 IV,44(159) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 34.~
133 IV,44 | truths and values of the Church's social teaching, and in
134 IV,44 | expressed the hope that the Church would recognize some of
135 IV,44 | different activities within the Church, while avoiding any confusion
136 IV,45 | bring to the life of the Church and to society. To fail
137 IV,45 | side of poverty”. (170) The Church feels the duty to defend
138 IV,45 | In particular, the Church deplores the appalling practice,
139 IV,45 | international level.~The Church throughout America feels
140 IV,45 | responsible role in the Church's life and mission, (173)
141 IV,46 | builds it up as a domestic church and makes it fruitful in
142 IV,46 | order to be a true “domestic church” (176) the Christian family
143 IV,46(176) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 11.~
144 IV,46 | in the community and the Church, and to learn, especially
145 IV,47 | communion and solidarity for the Church and society in America”. (179)
146 IV,47 | find their place in the Church and in the world. Consequently,
147 IV,47 | complex situation, “the Church is committed to maintaining
148 IV,47 | her pastoral activity the Church reaches a great number of
149 IV,47 | outside the range of the Church's activity. Young Christians,
150 IV,48 | hope and love”. (182) The Church is grateful for the efforts
151 IV,49 | 49. Between the Catholic Church and the other Christian
152 IV,49 | under way with the Orthodox Church, with which we share many
153 IV,50 | The Church's relations with Jewish
154 IV,50 | communities, with which the Church has fostered increasing
155 IV,50 | people and he inaugurated his Church within the Jewish nation.
156 IV,51 | religions, the Catholic Church rejects nothing in them
157 IV,51 | preserved in its fullness by the Church. (193) Consistent with this
158 IV,51(192) | Council, Declaration on the Church's Relation to Non-Christian
159 IV,51 | for the common good. The Church in America must also work
160 V,52 | order to flee violence. The Church in America must encourage
161 V,53 | The Church's teaching, a statement
162 V,53 | relativism and subjectivism, the Church in America is called to
163 V,53 | by the Magisterium of the Church. There is a need to recognize “
164 V,53 | who, by setting forth the Church's teaching in fidelity to
165 V,54 | The Church's social doctrine~54. Faced
166 V,54 | that they can find in the Church's social doctrine an answer
167 V,54 | this treasure which is the Church's social teaching and, inspired
168 V,54 | Catechism of the Catholic Church devotes to this material,
169 V,54 | Catechism of the Catholic Church, such a synthesis would
170 V,54 | An important place in the Church's social doctrine belongs
171 V,54(200) | Catechism of the Catholic Church, 24.~
172 V,55 | her social doctrine the Church makes an effective contribution
173 V,55 | international common good. For “the Church's social doctrine is a moral
174 V,55 | between nations”. (203)~The Church in America is called not
175 V,56 | which cry to heaven~56. The Church's social doctrine also makes
176 V,56 | social justice. Thus the Church needs to pay greater attention
177 V,58 | and the outcast~58. “The Church in America must incarnate
178 V,58 | solidarity of the universal Church towards the poor and the
179 V,58 | openness. The goal of the Church is to ensure that no one
180 V,58 | spiritual and material need.~The Church's work on behalf of the
181 V,58 | poor (cf. Ps 34:7) and the Church must heed the cry of those
182 V,59 | into its many aspects, the Church in her pastoral concern
183 V,60 | corruption is widespread. The Church can effectively help to
184 V,60 | Catechism of the Catholic Church devoted to this subject,
185 V,60 | to put into practice the Church's social doctrine in all
186 V,61 | problem of the drug trade, the Church in America can cooperate
187 V,62 | For this reason the Church remains vigilant in situations
188 V,63 | distressing reality, the Church community intends to commit
189 V,63 | recent documents of the Church's Magisterium, forcefully
190 V,63 | promote knowledge of the Church's social doctrine and to
191 V,63(229) | Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 2267, which cites John
192 V,63 | it is essential for the Church in America to take appropriate
193 V,64 | African descent~64. If the Church in America, in fidelity
194 V,65 | Christian elements. The Church is well aware of the problems
195 V,65 | bring enrichment to all.~Church communities will not fail
196 V,65 | Fathers recalled that “the Church in America must be a vigilant
197 V,65 | them to become part of the Church's life, always with due
198 V,65 | legislation and praxis of the Church, (237) has proved extremely
199 V,65 | possible can be ensured. The Church in America must be constantly
200 VI | CHAPTER VI~THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH ~IN AMERICA TODAY: ~THE
201 VI,66 | precisely as members of the Church, have the vocation and mission
202 VI,66 | part of this work of the Church” (241) and so should feel
203 VI,66(240) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 31.~
204 VI,66 | and vocation proper to the Church, her most profound identity”. (243)
205 VI,66 | which the world and the Church find themselves at the threshold
206 VI,66 | evangelization”. (244) As the Church's Supreme Pastor, I urgently
207 VI,67 | greatest evangelizer. (247) The Church must make the crucified
208 VI,67 | Everything planned in the Church must have Christ and his
209 VI,67 | Therefore, “the Church in America must speak increasingly
210 VI,67 | been estranged from the Church. (251) The damage done by
211 VI,67 | encouragement and guidance of the Church's Pastors, who are called
212 VI,67 | consciences on the basis of the Church's social doctrine. This
213 VI,68 | the world” (Jn 4:42). The Church, which draws her life from
214 VI,68 | constantly at work in the Church and in the world through
215 VI,68 | of the Risen One in the Church makes it possible for us
216 VI,68 | received from and lived in the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ.
217 VI,68 | mission to which the whole Church is called. This mission
218 VI,69 | Lord, this service to the Church, generously offering their
219 VI,69 | indispensable in the life of the Church.~In catechesis it will be
220 VI,71 | Christ and his message as the Church presents it in her dogmatic
221 VI,71 | carry out these tasks, the Church in America requires a degree
222 VI,71 | mission entrusted to the Church by the Lord. Furthermore,
223 VI,73 | directed. (280) The Catholic Church in America is critical of
224 VI,73 | separated from the Catholic Church, long-established in some
225 VI,73 | already have with the Catholic Church must enlighten the attitudes
226 VI,73 | enlighten the attitudes of the Church and her members towards
227 VI,73 | that only in the Catholic Church is found the fullness of
228 VI,73 | ignored. It demands of the Church on the continent a thorough
229 VI,73 | many Catholics leave the Church. Pastoral policies will
230 VI,73 | so that each particular Church can offer the faithful more
231 VI,73 | liturgical preaching”. (285) A Church which fervently lives the
232 VI,74 | Christ entrusted to his Church the mission of evangelizing
233 VI,74 | evangelizing mission which the Church has received, as there has
234 VI,74 | from Asia.~This obliges the Church in America to be involved
235 VI,74 | America or to wait until the Church in America reaches the point,
236 VI,74 | sons and daughters of the Church throughout America will
237 Conclu,75 | of the Lord, the pilgrim Church in America prepares enthusiastically
238 Conclu,75 | not (cf. Mt 28:5, 10). The Church in America wishes to walk
239 Conclu,75 | the Lord of history, the Church prepares to cross the threshold
240 Conclu,75 | Furthermore, the Church in America feels especially
241 Conclu,75 | every pastoral action of the Church on the continent, permeating
242 Conclu,76(294)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 11.~
243 Conclu,76 | commitment.~Protect your Church and the Successor of Peter, ~
244 Conclu,76 | your flock. ~Grant that the Church in America may flourish ~
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