The Church What is it Who is it Author:Chiara Lubich In our contemporary world, many people ask, What purpose does the Church serve? What does it do? Chiara responds with a concept that is emerging more and more also in ecumenism, namely, that the Church has the task, within humanity, of being a catalyst for unity. And it can be this because it draws its life from God who is Love. In her way of vi... more »ewing the Church and in her efforts to be the Church, through her charism of unity Chiara Lubich offers important ideas for living in this era of change. From the very beginning of her spiritual adventure, her approach was anything but passive. She encouraged an approach to Church that spoke of sharing in its life and generating it into life. She never considered it an institution outside or above the people.« less