In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his catechesis on Lumen Gentium, the Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. He said that the Church is "the people of God who draw their existence from the body of Christ and who are themselves the body of Christ." ...read more

In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV resumed his catechesis on Lumen Gentium, the Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. He said that "the Church is at the same time an earthly community and the mystical body of Christ, a visible assembly and a spiritual mystery, a reality present in history and a people journeying towards heaven." ...read more

In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his cycle of catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican Council. He turned to Lumen Gentium, the Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. Reflecting on St. Paul's meditation on the Church as a "mystery." ...read more

Sixty years after Lumen Gentium, the question is as relevant today as it was then: What kind of Church is God calling us to be and to become? ...read more

The Instrumentum Laboris for the 2024 session of the General Assembly calls the Synod and the Church to look upward and shine outward. ...read more

The Instrumentum Laboris for the 2024 session of the General Assembly calls the Synod and the Church to look upward and shine outward. ...read more