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 Bishops, first and foremost, and through them the priests and deacons, have received tasks (in Latin munera), which lead them to the service of 'all those who belong to the People of God,' so that, 'working toward a common goal freely and in an orderly way, [they] may arrive at salvation' (Lumen Gentium #18)." ...read more

In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his catechesis on Lumen Gentium, the Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. He specifically focused on the priestly and prophetic vocation of the whole People of God, saying that "the organ through which...truth is preserved, founded on the anointing of the Holy Spirit, is the supernatural sense of faith of the entire People of God, which is manifested in the consensus of the faithful."  ...read more

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