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What is "Church"?

From the Catechism para. 2030:

It is in the Church, in communion with all the baptized, that the Christian fulfills his vocation.

From the Church he receives the Word of God containing the teachings of "the law of Christ."

From the Church he receives the grace of the sacraments that sustains him on the "way."

From the Church he learns the example of holiness and recognizes its model and source in the all-holy Virgin Mary; he discerns it in the authentic witness of those who live it; he discovers it in the spiritual tradition and long history of the saints who have gone before him and whom the liturgy celebrates in the rhythms of the sanctoral cycle.

 

It's also said that we, the faithful, are the Church. How so???

From the Catechism para. 2045:

Because they are members of the Body whose Head is Christ (cf. Eph 1:22], Christians contribute to building up the Church by the constancy of their convictions and their moral lives. The Church increases, grows, and develops through the holiness of her faithful, until "we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Eph 4:13).

From the Catechism para. 824:

United with Christ, the Church is sanctified by him; through him and with him she becomes sanctifying. All the activities of the Church are directed, as toward their end, to the sanctification of men in Christ and the glorification of God. It is in the Church that "the fullness of the means of salvation" has been deposited. It is in her that by the grace of God we acquire holiness.

The Church is universal - What does that mean?

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