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I don't know what Fr. Corapi said or what he meant however:
"Body of Christ" is used by some Protestants, such as Baptists, to collectively describe the believers in Christ. This is based on several passages in the Bible, including Romans 12:5
,1 Corinthians 12:12-27
, Ephesians 3:6
and 5:23
, Colossians 1:18
and Colossians 1:24
. Jesus Christ is seen as the "head" of the body, which is the church …More
I don't know what Fr. Corapi said or what he meant however:
"Body of Christ" is used by some Protestants, such as Baptists, to collectively describe the believers in Christ. This is based on several passages in the Bible, including Romans 12:5
,1 Corinthians 12:12-27
, Ephesians 3:6
and 5:23
, Colossians 1:18
and Colossians 1:24
. Jesus Christ is seen as the "head" of the body, which is the church, while the "members" of the body are seen as members of the Church.
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To me, it's yet another attempt by the ecumenists to make nice-nice with those who used to be called heretics.
"Body of Christ" is used by some Protestants, such as Baptists, to collectively describe the believers in Christ. This is based on several passages in the Bible, including Romans 12:5
,1 Corinthians 12:12-27
, Ephesians 3:6
and 5:23
, Colossians 1:18
and Colossians 1:24
. Jesus Christ is seen as the "head" of the body, which is the church, while the "members" of the body are seen as members of the Church.
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To me, it's yet another attempt by the ecumenists to make nice-nice with those who used to be called heretics.
Don's dogmatic ecclesiology is a bit screwy here, including Protestants as members of the Body of Christ. Perhaps he is unaware of:
From Mystici Corporis:
13. If we would define and describe this true Church of Jesus Christ - which is the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church [12] - we shall find nothing more noble, more sublime, or more divine than the expression "the Mystical Body of …More
Don's dogmatic ecclesiology is a bit screwy here, including Protestants as members of the Body of Christ. Perhaps he is unaware of:
From Mystici Corporis:
13. If we would define and describe this true Church of Jesus Christ - which is the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church [12] - we shall find nothing more noble, more sublime, or more divine than the expression "the Mystical Body of Christ" - an expression which springs from and is, as it were, the fair flowering of the repeated teaching of the Sacred Scriptures and the Holy Fathers.
14. That the Church is a body is frequently asserted in the Sacred Scriptures. "Christ," says the Apostle, "is the Head of the Body of the Church."[13] If the Church is a body, it must be an unbroken unity, according to those words of Paul: "Though many we are one body in Christ."[14] But it is not enough that the Body of the Church should be an unbroken unity; it must also be something definite and perceptible to the senses as Our predecessor of happy memory, Leo XIII, in his Encyclical Satis Cognitum asserts: "the Church is visible because she is a body.[15] Hence they err in a matter of divine truth, who imagine the Church to be invisible, intangible, a something merely "pneumatological" as they say, by which many Christian communities, though they differ from each other in their profession of faith, are untied by an invisible bond.
PART TWO: DOGMATIC ECCLESIOLOGY
V. Definition of the Catholic Church
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
The most authoritative teaching of the Church on this important and yet delicate subject is the Encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi which Pius XII published in 1943, and in which he simply and unequivocally identifies the Mystical Body on earth with the hierarchical Roman Catholic Church. When seven years later, certain writers were still not convinced, the Pope reprimanded their lack of obedience, declaring that "Some think they are not bound by the doctrine, set forth in our Encyclical Letter of a few years ago and based on the sources of revelation, according to which the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same (Corpus Christi Mysticum et Ecclesiam Catholicam Romanum unum idemque esse)” [10] This removed the last vestige of theological hesitation about the mutual identity, and today the opposite opinion would be considered heretical. [11]
10. Pius XII, "Humani Generis," Acta Apostolicae Sedis, vol. 42, p. 571.
11. Sebastian Tromp, Corpus Christi_Quod Est Ecclesia, Rome, 1946, p. 167.
And, from Mortalium Animos:
11. Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors. Did not the ancestors of those who are now entangled in the errors of Photius and the reformers, obey the Bishop of Rome, the chief shepherd of souls? Alas their children left the home of their fathers, but it did not fall to the ground and perish for ever, for it was supported by God. Let them therefore return to their common Father, who, forgetting the insults previously heaped on the Apostolic See, will receive them in the most loving fashion. For if, as they continually state, they long to be united with Us and ours, why do they not hasten to enter the Church, "the Mother and mistress of all Christ's faithful"?[25] Let them hear Lactantius crying out: "The Catholic Church is alone in keeping the true worship. This is the fount of truth, this the house of Faith, this the temple of God: if any man enter not here, or if any man go forth from it, he is a stranger to the hope of life and salvation. Let none delude himself with obstinate wrangling. For life and salvation are here concerned, which will be lost and entirely destroyed, unless their interests are carefully and assiduously kept in mind."[26]
The Roman Catholic Church is the Spotless Bride of Christ. He knows no other.
From Mystici Corporis:
13. If we would define and describe this true Church of Jesus Christ - which is the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church [12] - we shall find nothing more noble, more sublime, or more divine than the expression "the Mystical Body of Christ" - an expression which springs from and is, as it were, the fair flowering of the repeated teaching of the Sacred Scriptures and the Holy Fathers.
14. That the Church is a body is frequently asserted in the Sacred Scriptures. "Christ," says the Apostle, "is the Head of the Body of the Church."[13] If the Church is a body, it must be an unbroken unity, according to those words of Paul: "Though many we are one body in Christ."[14] But it is not enough that the Body of the Church should be an unbroken unity; it must also be something definite and perceptible to the senses as Our predecessor of happy memory, Leo XIII, in his Encyclical Satis Cognitum asserts: "the Church is visible because she is a body.[15] Hence they err in a matter of divine truth, who imagine the Church to be invisible, intangible, a something merely "pneumatological" as they say, by which many Christian communities, though they differ from each other in their profession of faith, are untied by an invisible bond.
PART TWO: DOGMATIC ECCLESIOLOGY
V. Definition of the Catholic Church
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
The most authoritative teaching of the Church on this important and yet delicate subject is the Encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi which Pius XII published in 1943, and in which he simply and unequivocally identifies the Mystical Body on earth with the hierarchical Roman Catholic Church. When seven years later, certain writers were still not convinced, the Pope reprimanded their lack of obedience, declaring that "Some think they are not bound by the doctrine, set forth in our Encyclical Letter of a few years ago and based on the sources of revelation, according to which the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same (Corpus Christi Mysticum et Ecclesiam Catholicam Romanum unum idemque esse)” [10] This removed the last vestige of theological hesitation about the mutual identity, and today the opposite opinion would be considered heretical. [11]
10. Pius XII, "Humani Generis," Acta Apostolicae Sedis, vol. 42, p. 571.
11. Sebastian Tromp, Corpus Christi_Quod Est Ecclesia, Rome, 1946, p. 167.
And, from Mortalium Animos:
11. Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors. Did not the ancestors of those who are now entangled in the errors of Photius and the reformers, obey the Bishop of Rome, the chief shepherd of souls? Alas their children left the home of their fathers, but it did not fall to the ground and perish for ever, for it was supported by God. Let them therefore return to their common Father, who, forgetting the insults previously heaped on the Apostolic See, will receive them in the most loving fashion. For if, as they continually state, they long to be united with Us and ours, why do they not hasten to enter the Church, "the Mother and mistress of all Christ's faithful"?[25] Let them hear Lactantius crying out: "The Catholic Church is alone in keeping the true worship. This is the fount of truth, this the house of Faith, this the temple of God: if any man enter not here, or if any man go forth from it, he is a stranger to the hope of life and salvation. Let none delude himself with obstinate wrangling. For life and salvation are here concerned, which will be lost and entirely destroyed, unless their interests are carefully and assiduously kept in mind."[26]
The Roman Catholic Church is the Spotless Bride of Christ. He knows no other.