A couple of excerpts:
From the beginning, bishops recognized that their task was not just updating church practices but also a process of "ressourcement," or going back to the sources of the faith.
"Lumen Gentium" presented the church as a mystery and a communion of baptized believers moving toward heaven as one body that is holy, yet imperfect while on earth.
Although organized hierarchically, the church as a communion is a living body whose individual members are called to holiness and who each have specific roles, rights and responsibilities, the document said.
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