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The Code of Canon Law covers all aspects of the visible Church of the Roman Rite. It regulates the administration of the Sacraments, the mutual relations of the faithful, protects the rights of individuals and associations, and sustains the common initiatives of the world-wide Catholic Church. Throughout, it permeates the ecclesiology of communion based on justice and charity that is so...

CAN. 204 §1.† The Christian faithful are those who, inasmuch as they have been incorporated in Christ through baptism, have been constituted as the people of God. For this reason, made sharers in their own way in Christ’s priestly, prophetic, and royal function, they are called to exercise the mission which God has entrusted to the Church to fulfill in the world, in accord with the condition proper to each. §2.† This Church, constituted and organized in this world as
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