On the Church of Christ

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The Person of the Church and Her Personnel......Page 1
Preface......Page 3
The Revealed Data Concerning the Church......Page 5
The Members of the Church Here on Earth Are All Sinners and the Church Herself Is Without Sin......Page 11
Short Preamble......Page 20
The Church Considered in Her Unity and Her Universality Has a Supernatural Personality Which Transcends That of Her Members......Page 21
The Church Considered in Her Unity and Her Universality Cannot Err or Fail......Page 28
Some Words on the Mythical Mode of Thinking and on Demythization......Page 29
All That Which the Person of the Church Transmits to Us As Revealed by God Is, Such As She Says It, Eternally True......Page 30
Apropos of Prescriptions, Whether Doctrinal or Prudential, Concerning the Regulation of Morals......Page 31
Pleroma......Page 36
The Church Is Full of Grace......Page 37
The Universality of the Church Is a Mystery, As She Is......Page 39
The Church Penitent......Page 43
A Preliminary Remark......Page 47
The Two States of the Church. She Endures and Advances Not Only in Time, But Also in the Duration Proper to Glory......Page 48
The Person of the Church Considered in Her Integrality, According as She Advances at Once in Aevum and in Time, or Considered Only According as She Advances in Time......Page 50
It is thus that the Bride will go to meet the Bridegroom. Digression on the Church of Heaven......Page 51
The Infallibility of the Church and the Infallibility of the Pope......Page 53
Authority and Liberty......Page 61
Authority in the Temporal Order and in the Spiritual Order......Page 62
You Are Peter......Page 63
Simon joannis, diligis me plus his? Pasce agnos meos......Page 64
Domine, tu mihi lavas pedes?......Page 66
Et violenti rapiunt illud......Page 67
The Data of the Gospel and the Prophetic Sketch Contained in It......Page 73
Christic Grace in the Age of Christ Come......Page 75
The Royal Priesthood of the People of God......Page 76
The Hierarchical Ministry......Page 77
Collegiality......Page 80
A Few Indiscreet Questions......Page 82
Some Words on Three Great Non-Christian Spiritual Families......Page 90
All Non-Christians and Non-Catholic Christians Who Have in Them the Grace of Christ Are Invisibly in the Visible Church......Page 95
That in Order to Be Saved It Is Necessary to Belong Visibly or Invisibly to the Visible Church, -- This Is Because the Person of the Church Is Already Here on Earth the Plenitude of Christ, His Body and His Bride, and Because in Heaven She Gathers Together in Her, Until the Last Day and for Eternity, All the Saved......Page 99
Catholic Ecumenism......Page 101
The Elements of Church......Page 104
The Dissident Christian Communities......Page 106
The Absolutely Fundamental and Universal Element of Church......Page 115
A Threefold Approach......Page 117
In Order to Complete Our Views on the Personality of the Church......Page 129
How the Person of the Church Is Visible......Page 131
Proper Causality and Instrumental Causality......Page 133
The Sacramental Order......Page 136
The Jurisdictional and Magisterial Order......Page 137
The Encyclicals of the Pope......Page 138
A Final Precision on the Notion of Personnel of the Church......Page 139
The Crusade and Its Executants......Page 145
The Holy War......Page 146
The Teaching of St. Paul Concerning the Chosen People......Page 148
Christian Antiquity......Page 150
The High Middle Ages......Page 152
The Last Centuries of the Middle Ages Religious Hatred of the Jewish People Develops and It Will Be a Good While before It Will Pass......Page 153
The Popes Condemned the Violence and Did Their Best in Order to Protect the Jews......Page 155
Digression on the State of Israel......Page 156
The Ancient and the New People of God......Page 157
The Medieval Inquisition......Page 171
The Spanish Inquisition......Page 179
The Roman Inquisition......Page 182
The Great Renewal......Page 185
Brief Historical Account......Page 193
The Roman Congregations......Page 195
The Abjuration of Galileo......Page 198
The Error of the Holy Office......Page 199
On, On, On, Daughter of God, On!......Page 201
The Condemnation......Page 203
The Rehabilitation......Page 205
On Private Revelations......Page 206
God First Served......Page 209
God and the Church, It Is All One and the Same Thing......Page 211
The True Mission of Joan......Page 212
An Error of Current Language......Page 226
How the Person of the Church Is in Time......Page 229
In Conclusion of This Book: A Few Remarks Concerning It......Page 231