Category: Ecclesiology

The Church–Mystery

19 October 2015

According to the Fathers, ontologically, the Church-mystery, the Church that is one and unique, precedes creation, and gives birth to the particular Churches as her...

We cannot make the Church

19 October 2015

The Church is not an apparatus, nor a social institution, nor one social institution among many others. It is a person. It is a woman....

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