Unlike any other chapter, Chapter 8 of Lumen Gentium is subdivided by subheadings, five in number, which I have reproduced in the notes below. This subdivision, unique to this chapter, gives it a special place as the conclusion, and, I would like to say, the recapitulation of Lumen Gentium as
For when Christ shall appear and the glorious resurrection of the dead will take place, the glory of God will light up the heavenly City and the Lamb will be the lamp thereof (see Rev 21:23). Then the whole Church of the saints in the supreme happiness of charity will
The chapter on the people of God begins: “At all times and in every race God has given welcome to whosoever fears him and does what is right. God, however, does not make men holy and save them merely as individuals, without bond or link between one another. Rather has
Let us face it: our history tells us that deep divisions have been annoyingly persistent in the Church. From the very beginning, Peter and Paul—whose feast day we celebrate together on June 29 as pillars of the Church—went at it pretty hard over their fundamental differences. Paul even speaks of