Excerpt from The Church at the Turning Points of History
The mission of the Church is to all nations and to all ages. "Going therefore, teach ye all nations . . . Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world". The doctrines of the Church must be always and everywhere the same, namely those her Divine Founder commanded her to preach. To teach them effectively, however, she must sympathize with the manners, customs and institutions of the various peoples she meets in her pathway across the centuries, adapting herself to their genius, to their forms of government and civilization. Like the Apostle, she must "become all things to all men, that she may save all". Hence, she has been obliged in the course of her history to break with old systems and organizations with which her life had become interwoven, in order to conform to new conditions of human society. This was not an easy thing to do. It always entailed a struggle. It often meant a crisis in her work of evangelization.
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