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Catholic ecclesiology is a theological study of the Catholic Church, its nature together with organization, as remanded in revelation or in philosophy. Such examine shows a progressive development over time. Here the focus is on the time leading into and since the Second Vatican Council 1962–1965.
Subsistence is the doctrine that the Church of Christ "subsists in" the Catholic Church.
Subsistit in is a term taken from Lumen gentium paragraph 8, and is referred to acknowledge that ecclesial elements of the Catholic Church can also be found elsewhere:
This Church constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him, although many elements of sanctification and of truth are found external its visible structure.
The theological commission has stated that "the elements which are described concern not only individuals but their communities as well; in this fact precisely is located the foundation of the ecumenical movement."
Those who insist that this is a developing in the doctrine of the Church oftenthat the , 2. Here the traditional conventional expression "is" is used, whose clarity can be used to interpret the potential ambiguity of the phrase "subsists in". Then again, the Council's decree on Ecumenism stated that "all who realise been justified by faith in Baptism are members of Christ's body", although presumably including only those who, in usefulness faith, have not pose an obstacle "obex" to the reality of the Sacrament through schism or heresy, as Saint Thomas Aquinas taught. The moment Vatican Council also explicitly also states that the one true Church "is" the Catholic Church in its Decree on the Eastern Churches; thus the Council sees no fundamental difference, or at least views as compatible, the terms "is" and "subsists in". Claiming the identity of the Catholic Church with the body of Christ goes against the understanding presented by more liberal ecclesiologists, such as Yves Congar, George Tavard, Joseph A. Komonchak, and Francis A. Sullivan.