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This work features the most discussed topics of the life of the church, treated with unique frankness and depth by the church’s spiritual and theological leader. In this collection of essays, theologian Joseph Ratzinger, now Benedict XVI, tackles three major issues in the church today—the nature of the church, the pursuit of Christian unity, and the relationship of Christianity to the...

representing Christ and being a sinful man who lives entirely on the reception of Christ’s Gifts. Church cannot be made but only received, that is to say, received from a source where she already exists and really exists: from the sacramental communion of his Body as it makes its way through history. But there is another consideration that helps us to understand this difficult expression, “legitimately organized local groups”: Christ is whole everywhere: that is the one very important thing that
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