Mystici Corporis Christi

Mystici Corporis Christi is a Encyclique, promulgated by the pope Pie XII the June 29th 1943, treating definition of the Church, in particular like “mystical body of Jesus-Christ”: The Church is a visible organic community whose head is Christ.

The encyclical belongs to the corpus of doctrinal texts concerning the nature of the Church. Part of the definitions given by Pie XII will be taken again and developed by the Council the Vatican II in the dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium

See too

The text of the encyclical

  • Encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi, in French, on the site of the Vatican.
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