Cardinal suenens church governance scripture
The following is the text of an Intervention regarding the schemata on the Church during the Second Vatican Council.
This article by Cardinal Suenens discusses Vatican II from the viewpoint of the Church's pilgrimage towards God..
I Believe in the Holy Church
I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY CHURCH
Cardinal Leo Suenens
Pastoral Letter from Cardinal Leo Suenens on the Occasion of Pentecost
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The Church in the light of Faith
YES TO THE GOSPEL, NO TO THE CHURCH?
I would like to call upon you, on the occasion of Pentecost, which is the feast of the birth of the Church, to understand better the meaning and the role of the Church in our Christian life.
More particularly, I would like to help you to reflect on the living, deep and indissoluble tie which links the Church with Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ with his Church.
It is not unusual to meet Christians—or even non-believers—who admit the authority of Jesus Christ, but refuse to recognize the Church as mediator between him and us.
They accept the Gospel—or rather a certain interpretation of the Gospel—and say "yes" to Jesus Christ; but they reject the Church as a superfluous, or even harmful intermediary.
To those who say: "We have Jesus Christ, why the