The Mystical Body

This page is being prepared. It will present the doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ — the teaching that the Church is not merely a human institution but the living Body of which Christ is the Head and the baptised are members. The scriptural foundations, the encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi of Pope Pius XII, the Communion of Saints, and the relationship between the visible and invisible dimensions of the Church will be set forth.

"For as the body is one, and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body, so also is Christ." — 1 Corinthians 12:12