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1 Int, 1 | communion with the Catholic Church, gives new vigour to the
2 Int, 3 | Vatican Council, the Catholic Church committed herself irrevocably
3 Int, 3 | these years have made the Church even more profoundly aware
4 Int, 3 | in history. The Catholic Church acknowledges and confesses
5 Int, 3 | events of her history, the Church is committed to freeing
6 Int, 3 | engagement which awaits the Church at the threshold of the
7 Int, 4 | this special mission in the Church and exhorted him to strengthen
8 Int, 4 | special ministry in the Church, depends totally on the
9 Int, 4 | of the Redeemer, and the Church constantly makes this petition
10 Int, 4 | faithful of the Catholic Church and all Christians to share
11 Int, 4 | her earthly pilgrimage the Church has suffered and will continue
12 1 | CHAPTER I - THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S COMMITMENT TO ECUMENISM~
13 1, 5 | disciples, the Catholic Church bases upon God's plan her
14 1, 5 | into unity. Indeed, "the Church is not a reality closed
15 1, 5(4) | Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of the Church
16 1, 5(4) | Church on Some Aspects of the Church Understood as Communion
17 1 | ecumenism: the way of the Church~
18 1, 7 | which each regards as his Church and, indeed, God's. And
19 1, 7 | there may be one visible Church of God, a Church truly universal
20 1, 7 | visible Church of God, a Church truly universal and sent
21 1, 8 | The Council expresses the Church's decision to take up the
22 1, 8 | all the teaching on the Church set forth in the Dogmatic
23 1, 8(8) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 14.~
24 1, 8 | Dignitatis Humanae.9~The Catholic Church embraces with hope the commitment
25 1, 9 | Lord has bestowed on his Church and in which he wishes to
26 1, 9 | community. God wills the Church, because he wills unity,
27 1, 9(10) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 14.~
28 1, 9 | Jn 1:3). For the Catholic Church, then, thecommunion of Christians
29 1, 9 | unity means to desire the Church; to desire the Church means
30 1, 9 | the Church; to desire the Church means to desire the communion
31 1, 10 | challenged by the Lord of the Church. The Second Vatican Council
32 1, 10 | Council states that the Church of Christ "subsists in the
33 1, 10 | subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the
34 1, 10 | properly belonging to the Church of Christ, possess an inner
35 1, 10 | entrusted to the Catholic Church".12~
36 1, 11 | 11. The Catholic Church thus affirms that during
37 1, 11 | God wishes to endow his Church, and this despite the often
38 1, 11 | daily fall. The Catholic Church knows that, by virtue of
39 1, 11 | Even so, the Catholic Church does not forget that many
40 1, 11 | to the structure of the Church of Christ nor that communion
41 1, 11 | between them and the Catholic Church.~To the extent that these
42 1, 11 | Christian Communities, the one Church of Christ is effectively
43 1, 11 | stresses that the Catholic Church "recognizes that in many
44 1, 12 | boundaries of the Catholic Church: "For there are many who
45 1, 12 | each of these Churches, the Church of God is built up and grows
46 1, 13 | daughters of the Catholic Church".17~With reference to the
47 1, 13 | belong by right to the one Church of Christ. The separated
48 1, 13 | to the condition of each Church or Community, these actions
49 1, 13 | which in the Catholic Church are part of the fullness
50 1, 13 | grace which make up the Church, are also found in the other
51 1, 14 | in order to arrive at a Church which God has in mind for
52 1, 14 | of the West, the Catholic Church believes that in the Pentecost
53 1, 14 | has already manifested the Church in her eschatological reality,
54 1, 14 | elements of this already-given Church exist, found in their fullness
55 1, 14 | fullness in the Catholic Church and, without this fullness,
56 1, 14(19) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 2.~
57 1, 15 | evangelization at every stage of the Church's journey of salvation.
58 1, 16 | that "Christ summons the Church, as she goes her pilgrim
59 1, 16 | With regard to the Catholic Church, I have frequently recalled
60 1, 17 | faithful of the Catholic Church cannot forget that the ecumenical
61 1, 17 | consequence of all that the Church at that time committed herself
62 1, 17(28) | GROUP BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE WORLD COUNCIL OF
63 1, 17 | and from the midst of the Church" the excommunications of
64 1, 17 | debates about Revelation, the Church, the nature of ecumenism
65 1, 18 | what concerns God and his Church",33 and adherence to truth'
66 1, 19 | love which preserves the Church from all forms of particularism,
67 1, 19 | unity pertains to the whole Church, faithful and clergy alike.
68 1, 20 | appendix" which is added to the Church's traditional activity.
69 1, 20 | believed about the unity of the Church and how he saw full Christian
70 1, 22 | and then bestowed on his Church in the Upper Room in Jerusalem,
71 1, 22 | in that community of the Church which Christ constantly
72 1, 23 | leads people to look at the Church and Christianity in a new
73 1, 23 | Gospel, appealed to his own Church or Ecclesial Community.
74 1, 23 | which marked the Apostolic Church at its birth and which we
75 1, 23 | present in the life of the Church and in every activity aimed
76 1, 24 | unity in Christ and in his Church. With profound emotion I
77 1, 24 | Eucharistic Liturgy in the Church of Saint George at the Ecumenical
78 1, 24 | have all become part of the Church's memory as she is guided
79 1, 25 | an integral part of the Church's life. There is no important
80 1, 26(48) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
81 1, 27 | we have taken on in the Church. It was in order to reaffirm
82 1, 27 | faithful of the Catholic Church a model which I consider
83 1, 27(50) | life for the unity of the Church. Following a grave illness,
84 1, 28(51) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
85 1, 28(53) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 13.~
86 1, 29 | standpoint of the Catholic Church and refers to the criteria
87 1, 30 | the bases for the Catholic Church's participation in ecumenical
88 1, 31 | 31. The Church's commitment to ecumenical
89 1, 31 | commitment of the Catholic Church to apply the Council's guidelines
90 1, 31 | outright necessity, one of the Church's priorities. As a result,
91 1, 32 | to Christ's will for the Church and, wherever necessary,
92 1, 33 | particularly concerning the Church. In effect, truth forms
93 1, 34 | sins committed against the Church's unity: the sins of Christians,
94 1, 35 | Christ, the source of the Church's unity, can effectively
95 1, 36 | fast by the teaching of the Church and searching together with
96 1, 37(63) | Catholic Doctrine on the Church Mysterium Ecclesiae (24
97 1, 38 | though the truths which the Church intends to teach through
98 1, 38 | dogmatic formulas of the Church's Magisterium were from
99 1, 38(64) | Catholic Doctrine on the Church Mysterium Ecclesiae, 5:
100 1, 39 | the great Tradition of the Church. Catholics have the help
101 1, 39 | Catholics have the help of the Church's living Magisterium.~
102 1, 40(66) | Declaration between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church
103 1, 40(66) | Church and the Assyrian Church of the East: L'Osservatore
104 2, 41 | to the Apostles and the Church (cf. Jn 14:26). It is the
105 2, 42 | communion with the Catholic Church".69 This broadening of vocabulary
106 2, 42 | Baptism in building up the Church has been clearly brought
107 2, 43 | stressing that the Catholic Church cannot fail to take part
108 2, 43 | as through the Catholic Church.74 Today I see with satisfaction
109 2, 44 | Dei Verbum, the Catholic Church could not fail to welcome
110 2, 45 | carried out by the Catholic Church, certain other Ecclesial
111 2, 46 | communion with the Catholic Church but who greatly desire to
112 2, 46 | faith which the Catholic Church professes with regard to
113 2, 48 | members of the Catholic Church have established with other
114 2, 48 | mystery of Christ and the Church".80 Ecumenical dialogue,
115 2, 49 | teaching on the Catholic Church to an acknowledgment of
116 2, 49 | they are elements of the Church of Christ, these are by
117 2, 50 | moment for the Catholic Church, their common willingness
118 2, 50 | linking them with the Catholic Church. The Decree on Ecumenism
119 2, 50 | each of these Churches, the Church of God is built up and grows
120 2, 50 | in no way opposed to the Church's unity, but rather enhances
121 2, 50 | Churches and the Catholic Church, to give due consideration
122 2, 51 | Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.
123 2, 51 | Church and the Orthodox Church. It has likewise proved
124 2, 52 | 52. With regard to the Church of Rome and the Ecumenical
125 2, 52 | and from the midst of the Church" 84 the remembrance of the
126 2, 52 | rapprochement between the Church of the East and the Church
127 2, 52 | Church of the East and the Church of the West, and of the
128 2, 52 | dialogue between the Catholic Church and all the Orthodox Churches
129 2, 53 | the Lord's will for his Church.~On the path which we have
130 2, 53 | background of the Byzantine Church of their day, at a time
131 2, 54 | 988-1988). The Catholic Church, and this Apostolic See
132 2, 54 | its deepest meaning: the Church must breathe with her two
133 2, 54 | now includes the entire Church. If we then consider that
134 2, 54 | back to a time when the Church in the East and the Church
135 2, 54 | Church in the East and the Church in the West were not divided,
136 2, 54 | faithful of the Catholic Church in commemoration of the
137 2, 55 | Apostles themselves".87 The Church's journey began in Jerusalem
138 2, 55 | The structures of the Church in the East and in the West
139 2, 56 | ceased to bestow on his Church abundant fruits of grace
140 2, 56 | source of such good for the Church of Christ. This effort calls
141 2, 57 | the gifts of God to his Church we are brought into communion
142 2, 57 | Spirit ... In each local Church this mystery of divine love
143 2, 57 | is most fruitful for the Church. As the Council points out: "
144 2, 57 | treasury from which the Church of the West has amply drawn
145 2, 58 | bonds between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches,
146 2, 58 | wherein the unity of the Church is not jeopardized nor are
147 2, 58 | personage, the Catholic Church has often adopted and now
148 2, 59 | Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church
149 2, 59 | Church and the Orthodox Church has worked steadily, directing
150 2, 59 | tradition of the ancient Church, will find its fulfilment
151 2, 59 | concluded "that the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church
152 2, 59 | Church and the Orthodox Church can already profess together
153 2, 59 | faith in the mystery of the Church and the bond between faith
154 2, 59(98) | DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, "
155 2, 59(98) | CHURCH AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, "The Sacrament of Order
156 2, 59(98) | Sacramental Structure of the Church, with Particular Reference
157 2, 60 | communion between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church,
158 2, 60 | Church and the Orthodox Church, an issue which has frequently
159 2, 60 | communion with the Catholic Church, the Council expressed its
160 2, 60 | Eastern sons of the Catholic Church ... are already living in
161 2, 60 | apostolic character of the Church".100 Certainly the Eastern
162 2, 61 | of all this, the Catholic Church desires nothing less than
163 2, 61 | they were at home in any Church, because praise of the one
164 2, 61 | moral life, but also the~Church's very structure, in the
165 2, 61 | task which the Catholic Church must accomplish, a task
166 2, 61 | incumbent on the Orthodox Church. Thus can be understood
167 2, 62 | Vatican Council, the Catholic Church has also, in different ways
168 2, 62(104)| Jacoub III, Patriarch of the Church of Antioch of the Syrians (
169 2, 62(105)| Delegates of the Coptic Orthodox Church (2 June 1979): AAS 71 (1979),
170 2, 62 | Patriarch of the Ethiopian Church, Abuna Paulos, paid me a
171 2, 62(107)| Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia (11 June 1993):
172 2, 62(108)| Declaration between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church
173 2, 62(108)| Church and the Assyrian Church of the East: L'Osservatore
174 2, 64 | are bound to the Catholic Church by a special affinity and
175 2, 64 | one hand, and the Catholic Church on the other, there are
176 2, 65 | the West of the Catholic Church and of the Churches and
177 2, 66 | peace with the Catholic Church have not yet taken root
178 2, 66 | between the Scriptures and the Church. In the Church, according
179 2, 66 | Scriptures and the Church. In the Church, according to Catholic belief,
180 2, 67 | emerged with regard to the Church, the sacraments and the
181 2, 67 | other sacraments and the Church's worship and ministry".120~
182 2, 69 | sacramentality and authority of the Church and apostolic succession.
183 2, 70 | the prayer of the Catholic Church and of the other Churches
184 2, 70 | throughout the body of the Church, shows that Christians do
185 2, 70 | regardless of their role in the Church or level of education, can
186 3, 77 | Christians who profess that the Church is one, holy, catholic and
187 3, 78 | is not only the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches
188 3, 78 | catholic and apostolic Church which will be expressed
189 3, 78 | the communion of the one Church willed by Christ, continues
190 3, 79 | the Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the Pope and
191 3, 79 | Mother of God and Icon of the Church, the spiritual Mother who
192 3, 79 | and indifference to the Church's ordinances.131 Conversely,
193 3, 80(134)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 12.~
194 3, 81 | exercising their charism in the Church. It is also clear that ecumenical
195 3, 81 | Bishops and the Holy See. The Church's teaching authority is
196 3, 82 | conscience. The Catholic Church must enter into what might
197 3, 82 | that constant reform of the Church, insofar as she is also
198 3, 82 | faithful to his plan for the Church.~
199 3 | Contribution of the Catholic Church to the quest for Christian
200 3, 86 | states that the one Church of Christ subsists in the
201 3, 86 | subsists in the Catholic Church.142 The Decree on Ecumenism
202 3, 86(142)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 8.~
203 3, 86 | entrusted by Christ to his Church.~
204 3, 87 | are aware, as the Catholic Church, that we have received much
205 3, 87(144)| Churches, The Unity of the Church as "koinonia": Gift and
206 3, 88 | Communities, the Catholic Church is conscious that she has
207 3, 88(146)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 23.~
208 3, 88 | Christ, the Head of the Church. On the other hand, as I
209 3, 88 | June 1984, the Catholic Church's conviction that in the
210 3, 89 | dialogues in which the Catholic Church is engaging with other Churches
211 3, 89(149)| CHRIST AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Report (1981); ROMAN CATHOLIC/
212 3, 89(149)| COMMISSION, The Ministry in the Church (13 March 1981). The problem
213 3, 89(149)| DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCH.~
214 3, 89(149)| CHURCH AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCH.~
215 3, 90 | Rome is the Bishop of the Church which preserves the mark
216 3, 90 | at Rome. In this way the Church of Rome became the Church
217 3, 90 | Church of Rome became the Church of Peter and of Paul".150~
218 3, 91 | mission of Peter in the Church: "Blessed are you, Simon
219 3, 91 | this rock I will build my Church and the powers of death
220 3, 91 | particular ministry in the Church derives altogether from
221 3, 91 | about to give him in his Church, and for this reason was
222 3, 91 | Paul clearly shows that the Church is founded upon the infinite
223 3, 92 | mission of Peter in the Church, which has been made fruitful
224 3, 93 | authenticity and transparency.~The Church of God is called by Christ
225 3, 94 | and the Sacraments, the Church's mission, discipline and
226 3, 94 | of the common good of the Church, should anyone be tempted
227 3, 94(152)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ Pastor Aeternus:
228 3, 95 | communion. When the Catholic Church affirms that the office
229 3, 95(153)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 27.~
230 3, 96 | existing between us persuade Church leaders and their theologians
231 3, 96 | the will of Christ for his Church and allowing ourselves to
232 3 | particular Churches with the Church of Rome: a necessary condition
233 3, 97 | 97. The Catholic Church, both in her praxis and
234 3, 97 | particular Churches with the Church of Rome, and of their Bishops
235 3, 97 | of James, the head of the Church in Jerusalem. This function
236 3, 97 | Peter must continue in the Church so that under her sole Head,
237 3, 98 | witness of unity given by the Church ... At this point we wish
238 3, 98 | However true it is that the Church, by the prompting of the
239 Exh, 100 | faithful of the Catholic Church indicating the path to be
240 Exh, 100 | individual and of the whole Church".159 The Second Vatican
241 Exh, 100 | consciousness of the Catholic Church, recalling them in the light
242 Exh, 100 | and that he is leading the Church to the full realization
243 Exh, 101 | in the awareness that the Church has this obligation from
244 Exh, 101 | Christ, the Shepherd of the Church. Indeed all the faithful
245 Exh, 101 | unity pertains to the whole Church, faithful and clergy alike.
246 Exh, 102 | growth and builds up the Church down the centuries. As the
247 Exh, 102 | down the centuries. As the Church turns her gaze to the new
248 Exh, 102 | other Christians.~How is the Church to obtain this grace? In
249 Exh, 103 | faithful of the Catholic Church, and to you, my brothers
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