THE HOLY SEE: DOCUMENT, "THE COUNCIL DIDN’T CHANGE THE PREVIOUS DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH" (2)

” “"The idea of people of God, the collective nature of the bishops as revalorization of the bishops’ ministry, together with papal supremacy, the revalorization of particular Churches within the universal Church, the ecumenical opening of the concept of Church, and opening-up to other religions": those are the most important acquisitions of council ecclesiology, in the same way as it is depicted in Lumen Gentium. However, above all, it is pointed out by the Congregation for the doctrine of faith, there is "the question of the specific statute of the Catholic Church, which is expressed by the formula according to which the one and only, Catholic and apostolic Church, mentioned in the Creed, ‘subsistit in Ecclesia Catholica’ (exists in the Catholic Church – editor’s note). ” “