Quaestio Disputata the Meaning of Subsistit in as Explained by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Abstract

Much discussed since Vatican II is the question whether, in making the change from saying that the church of Christ is the Catholic Church to saying that it subsists in it, the council intended no longer to claim strict identity between the church of Christ and the Catholic Church. Francis Sullivan discusses the explanations of “subsists in” provided in recent documents from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.