Pope Francis' Renewed Vision of the Church

Pope Francis is determined to change the deformed and sick Church with a radical vision. As against the institutional, clergy-centered, self-referential and self-glorifying Church, Francis envisions the Church to be an authentic People of God who are correlative in attitude, collaborative in action, collegial in spirit, radiating the light of Christ, going to the existential peripheries and becoming an ‘evangelizing Church’. This article first attempts at describing the new vision of the Church, as projected by Pope Francis through signs and symbols and words and actions and as expounded in his Evangelii Gaudium