Unitatis Redintegratio: Analogy to describe those in "partial" or "imperfect" communion?
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Many Catholics, including Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) find the Mystical Body image to be problematic when discussing such ecumenical issues as you reference here. This is why Ratzinger pushed for the dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium to use "People of God" rather than "Body of Christ" in this ecumenical context. An understanding of the "People of God" was a main topic of Ratzinger's doctoral dissertation.
Over the years Ratzinger has had a great deal to say about the dogmatic constitution on the Church. In his earliest observations he contends that it did well to subordinate the image of Mystical Body to that of People of God. The Mystical Body paradigm, much in favor under Pius XII, makes it all but impossible to give any ecclesial status to non-Catholics and leads to a false identification of the Church with Christ her Lord. The image of People of God, he contends, is more biblical; it gives scope for recognizing the sins of the Church, and it indicates that the Church is still on pilgrimage under the sign of hope. (Avery Cardinal Dulles, From Ratzinger to Benedict)
This is a common understanding. Although certain aspects of his ecclesiology may have changed in his later years, the tension between the Mystical Body image and any positive ecclesial status for non-Catholics seems to have remained.
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