The Ecclesiology of Communion

Abstract

The 1985 Synod of Bishops presented communion as a key to Vatican II. The meaning of this affirmation is achieved from the resistance it had to overcome and from its integrating flexibility based on the following coordinates: Trinitarian perspective, centrality of the christifidelis, personalist dimension, ecclesiological function of the Eucharist, the local church and the communio ecclesiarum; missionary and ecumenical openness. In the midst of tensions, it offers necessary resources for convergence and complementarity. Precisely for this reason it is open to synodality, so that communion is