Benedict XVI: The Church is One and Holy

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was, once again, at the center of Pope Benedict XVIs reflections this Sunday during the Angelus prayer. In remarks to the faithful, the Pope quoted the First Letter to the Corinthians, where St. Paul likens the Church to the human body. "The Church is conceived as the Body of which Christ is the head, and forms with him a unified whole, explained Pope Benedict, who went on to say, [St Paul] was at pains to communicate the idea of unity in the multiplicity of charisms which are the gifts of the Holy Spirit," and it is precisely in Christ and the Holy Spirit that, "the Church is One and Holy." Again, it is through "the sacraments, the Word of God, charisms and mi ...

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