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Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of the Church Understood as Communion (Communionis notio) is unavailable, but you can change that!

For nearly 500 years, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has defended the Catholic Church from internal heresy—whether by false teaching or malpractice of faith. It is the oldest of the Curia’s nine congregations, and is made up of cardinals, bishops, priests, lay theologians, and canon lawyers. According to Pope Paul VI’s 1965 Motu Proprio Integrae Servandae, “All questions...

communion lies “at the heart of the Church’s selfunderstanding”4, insofar as it is the Mystery of the personal union of each human being with the divine Trinity and with the rest of mankind, initiated with the faith5, and, having begun as a reality in the Church on earth, is directed towards its eschatological fulfilment in the heavenly Church6. If the concept of communion, which is not a univocal concept, is to serve as a key to ecclesiology, it has to be understood within the teaching of the
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