The Church is “open to everyone and is for everyone.”
In this week’s Wednesday audience, Pope Leo XIV continues his catechesis on the Second Vatican Council and ‘Lumen gentium,’ reflecting on the Church as the People of God.
God carries out his work of salvation in history, choosing a real people and dwelling among them. It is a people made up of members of every nation, whose unifying principle is not a language, a culture, or an ethnicity, but faith in Christ.
This means that in the Church, there is, and there must be, a place for everyone.
It is a great sign of hope to know that the Church is a people of different nationalities, languages, and cultures living together in faith: “it is a sign placed in the very heart of humanity, a reminder and prophecy of that unity and peace to which God the Father calls all his children.”


