THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN THE MODERN WORLD
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- the dignity of the human person, and about the human community and the profound meaning of human activity, lays the foundation for the relationship between the Church and the world
- the Church has a saving and an eschatological purpose which can be fully attained only in the future world.
- United on behalf of heavenly values and enriched by them, this family has been “constituted and structured as a society in this world” by Christ
- Church, at once “a visible association and a spiritual community
- She serves as a leaven and as a kind of soul for human society
- the earthly and the heavenly city penetrate each other is a fact accessible to faith alone; it remains a mystery of human history
- the Church does not only communicate divine life to men but in some way casts the reflected light of that life over the entire earth, most of all by its healing and elevating impact on the dignity of the person
- Catholic Church gladly holds in high esteem the things which other Christian Churches and ecclesial communities have done or are doing cooperatively by way of achieving the same goal.
