{"id":59688,"date":"2026-03-25T11:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/?p=59688"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:34:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:34:58","slug":"leon-xiv-church-hierarchy-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/leon-xiv-audiencia-jerarquia-iglesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo XIV explains the hierarchy of the Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pope Leo XIV continues with the catechesis on \u201c.\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/archive\/hist_councils\/ii_vatican_council\/documents\/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_sp.html\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/archive\/hist_councils\/ii_vatican_council\/documents\/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_sp.html\">Lumen Gentium<\/a>\u201dduring the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/es\/events\/event.dir.html\/content\/vaticanevents\/es\/2026\/3\/25\/udienza-generale.html\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/es\/events\/event.dir.html\/content\/vaticanevents\/es\/2026\/3\/25\/udienza-generale.html\">hearings <\/a>of Wednesdays. On this occasion, he delved into the hierarchical form of the Church, explained in chapter three of the dogmatic constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First of all, the Pontiff pointed out that \u201cthe Catholic Church finds its foundation in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/firmas\/12-meses-12-apostoles-12-peticiones\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"56757\">apostles<\/a>, Christ wanted them to be living pillars of his Mystical Body. This hierarchy, he explained, \u201dworks at the service of unity, mission and the sanctification of all its members\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this order, as stated in \u201cLumen Gentium\u201d, \u201cis not a human construction that serves for the internal organization of the Church as a social body, but is a divine institution whose purpose is to perpetuate until the end of time the mission that Christ gave to the apostles\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Holy Father then clarified what the dogmatic constitution means when it uses the adjective \u201chierarchical\u201d. This refers to the \u201csacred origin of the apostolic ministry in the action of Jesus, the Good Shepherd, as well as its internal relationships\u201d. In this sense, he continued, \u201cthe bishops, first of all, and, through them, priests and deacons, have received commissions that lead them to be at the service of \u2018all who belong to the People of God\u2019\u201d (LG, 18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leo XIV pointed out that \u201cthe \u2018Lumen Gentium\u2019 recalls several times and in an effective way the collegial and communion character of this apostolic mission\u201d. For this reason, he encouraged all Christians to ask God \u201cto send to his Church ministers who are ardent in evangelical charity, dedicated to the good of all the baptized and courageous missionaries in every part of the world\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Papa Le\u00f3n XIV prosigue con las catequesis sobre \u201cLumen Gentium\u201d durante las audiencias de los mi\u00e9rcoles. En esta ocasi\u00f3n, se ha adentrado en la forma jer\u00e1rquica de la Iglesia, explicada en el cap\u00edtulo tres de la constituci\u00f3n dogm\u00e1tica. En primer lugar, el Pont\u00edfice se\u00f1al\u00f3 que \u201cla Iglesia cat\u00f3lica encuentra su fundamento en los ap\u00f3stoles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":59689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,51],"tags":[2319],"class_list":["post-59688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-vaticano","tag-papa-leon-xiv","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}