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1 1 | 1. The Church, expert in humanity, has
2 1 | of civil society and the Church. Having contributed to a
3 1 | teaching of John Paul II,1 the Church is called today to address
4 1 | between men and women in the Church and in the world. These
5 1 | further examination in the Church, as well as an impetus for
6 4 | currents of thought, the Church, enlightened by faith in
7 9 | people is also expressed. The Church's recognition of her relationship
8 10 | mystery. He writes to the Church in Corinth, which he had
9 10 | relationship between Christ and the Church is taken up again and deepened
10 10 | the beloved bride is the Church, and as the Holy Father
11 10 | Bridegroom: ‘Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for
12 10 | that he might present the Church to himself in splendour,
13 10 | refers to Christ and the Church” (Eph 5:32). The love of
14 10 | love between Christ and his Church, and a witness to the mystery
15 11 | the love of Christ and his Church, the hearts of Christian
16 12 | human society and in the Church.~ ~
17 [Title]| VALUES~IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH~
18 15 | 15. In the Church, woman as “sign” is more
19 15 | the very identity of the Church, as received from God and
20 15 | of men and women in the Church.~From the beginning of Christianity,
21 15 | beginning of Christianity, the Church has understood herself to
22 15 | this it follows that the Church's first task is to remain
23 15 | fundamental reference in the Church. One could say metaphorically
24 15 | mirror placed before the Church, in which the Church is
25 15 | the Church, in which the Church is invited to recognize
26 15 | is an invitation to the Church to root her very being in
27 15 | loving obedience by which the Church can say to the Father: “
28 15 | It is from Mary that the Church always learns the intimacy
29 15 | from the Cross shows the Church how to receive all those
30 15 | and sin. From Mary, the Church learns the meaning of the
31 16 | mean, however, that the Church should adopt a passivity
32 16 | Nor does it condemn the Church to a dangerous vulnerability
33 16 | on the Cross invites his Church to learn from Mary the secret
34 16 | victorious.~Far from giving the Church an identity based on an
35 16 | and waiting, places the Church in continuity with the spiritual
36 16 | maximum importance in the Church's life by recalling these
37 16 | showing the true face of the Church, spouse of Christ and mother
38 17 | celebrate the same jubilee.~The Church certainly knows the power
39 17 | crucified and risen, the Church knows even more the power
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