La unicidad de la Iglesia y la cuestión del subsistit in (LG 8)
The uniqueness of the Church and the theme of „subsistit in” (LG 8)

Summary/Abstract: The Catholic Church maintains that it is in historical continuity with the one Church of Christ. But it acknowledges a genuine eclesial reality in other churches and communities that are separated from it. This does not multiply the one Church into several churches. From a purely sociological point of view the Catholic Church and the other churches may appear to be a plurality of institutions that are „external” to one another, and from such a perspectivethe Catholic Church would appear simply to be one of the number of churches. However, insofar as all the churches and ecclesial communities are participatory realizations of the single sacramentality of the Church of Christ, which „subsists in” the Catholic Church, there is an immanence between the separated churches and communities and the Catholic Church.

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